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curtain-raise

verb

Etymology

From curtain-raiser.

Definitions

  1. To introduce

    To introduce; to prefigure, to set the stage for.

    • The fall and humiliation of Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella were carefully timed to curtain-raise what Bella intended as his biggest show, the "Second Bandung Conference."
    • Curtain-raised here, also, is Cromwell's eventual readiness to smash the monasteries and confiscate their revenue and property to finance the building of a modern state […]

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