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precurtain

precurtain adjective: before the curtain rises at the start of a play.

Adjective

precurtain (not comparable)

  1. Before the curtain rises at the start of a play.
    • The cast gathered on the back porch for Ms. Barre’s precurtain notes: Think about your first line.2007 July 21, Campbell Robertson, “Well West of Broadway, the Stage Is Their World”, in New York Times
  2. Before the curtain falls at the end of a play.

Origin of precurtain

From pre- + curtain.

Questions about precurtain

What does precurtain mean?
Precurtain means before the curtain rises at the start of a play.
What part of speech is precurtain?
Precurtain is an adjective.

Words near precurtain in the dictionary

  1. precursories
  2. precursors
  3. precursorship
  4. precursorships
  5. precursory
  6. precurtain
  7. precurved
  8. precut
  9. precutaneous
  10. precuticular
  11. precuts

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