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rehearsal

Today it means: The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. Full definition →

Middle English rehercel ← Middle French rehercel

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Middle French · derived fromrehercel
Middle English · inherited fromrehercel
English todayrehearsal

From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.