curtain raiser

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After the women opened the season on Saturday with their giant slalom on the Austrian glacier, the men battled poor visibility and welcome wintry weather in their traditional curtain raiser.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

Twelve months ago, on the eve of their Champions League curtain raiser against Slovan Bratislava, the manager said he was "in the best place I've been" at the club.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

The Venice theater presents “Fam and Yam” as a curtain raiser for Harold Pinter’s more substantial and stylistically assured “The Dumb Waiter.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

That fall, Rivian held a public curtain raiser in Normal for its $70,000 trucks, which it says can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in about three seconds.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021

It had placed Archie at a disadvantage for the first time as assigner because Rollo had only been the curtain raiser, a bit of amusement Obie had arranged to enliven the proceedings.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier