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curtain raiser definition

curtain raiser

  1. a short play or skit presented before a longer production
  2. any brief preliminary event, entertainment, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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