curtain-raise

English

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, Christopher Hitchens, ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic, Mar 2010:
  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 […]

Anagrams

securitarian

单词	curtain-raise
释义	curtain-raise English 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, Christopher Hitchens, ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic, Mar 2010: 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 […] Anagrams securitarian
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