curtain-raiser in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

curtain-raiser in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for curtain-raiser in the English»French Dictionary

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The minor final provides the curtain-raiser to the senior final.
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But yearly crime statistics out this month are a curtain-raiser to its findings.
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There will not be a curtain-raiser at the match, but gates open at 6pm.
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Perhaps, had the ceremony been the curtain-raiser for two weeks of failure, it might have gone down as a grandiloquent folly.
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The cohesion of the ensemble was very tight, the overall effect exciting and it served as the perfect curtain-raiser.
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But with a curtain-raiser like this, who cares?
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