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Meaning of curtain-raise | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

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

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

curtained curtained off curtaining curtaining off curtains curtains off

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