Meaning of curtain-raise | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic, transitive

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level