Definitions for curtain-raiser

curtain-raiser curtain raiser

Curtain-Raiser is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 1317 anagrams from letters in curtain-raiser (-aaceiinrrrstu).

Definitions for curtain-raiser

noun

  1. a short play preceding a main play.
  2. any preliminary event or performance.

Origin of curtain-raiser

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for curtain-raiser

There was no curtain-raiser, and the first act was well constructed and interesting from the commencement.

They had made, Ted Hunter announced, a very short mystery reel which they would now run as a curtain-raiser to the main event.

The curtain-raiser was over, and very nice too; now for the drama.

This, to be sure, is only the curtain-raiser to the pleasures to follow.

It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.

The actors in the curtain-raiser were returning to their dressing-rooms.

But its curtain-raiser, Dusk, is to be retained for the revival of Magic.

Maybe you could make a one-act tragedy out of it for a curtain-raiser.

But if you don't know how easy it is, it looks like a curtain-raiser for manslaughter.

He almost wished he had not followed the curtain-raiser with his own stronger drama.

Word Value for curtain-raiser
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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