curtain-raise
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Etymology
From curtain-raiser.
Verb
curtain-raise (third-person singular simple present curtain-raises, present participle curtain-raising, simple past and past participle curtain-raised)
- (transitive) To introduce; to prefigure, to set the stage for.
- 1965, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic, volume 153:
- 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."
- 2010 Mar, Christopher Hitchens, “The Men Who Made England”, in The Atlantic:
- 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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