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▪ I. ‖ première, n.
(prəmjɛr, ˈprɛmɪɛə(r), U.S. prɪˈmɪə(r))
Also premier, preemeer.
[F., short for première représentation.]
A first representation or performance of a play, etc.; a ‘first night’. Also transf.
1889‘F. Leslie’ Let. 9 Feb. in W. T. Vincent Recoll. Fred Leslie (1894) II. xxii. 81 It upset all of us and made us more nervous than a première. 1890G. B. Shaw Let. 28 Feb. (1965) I. 244 This does not..include the expenses of the première at Amsterdam. 1895Punch 26 Jan. 37/1 It was a pleasant sight, on the première of ‘King Arthur’ to see [etc.]. 1896A. W. à Beckett in Daily News 14 Feb. 6/2 The day before the date fixed for our premiere arrived, and I duly reported progress. 1897‘Ouida’ Massarenes xxvi, [He] never misses a season at Bayreuth, or a première of Saint-Saëns's. 1915Sat. Even. Post 9 Oct. 62/2 She always accompanies me to our premières. 1930E. Mannin Confessions & Impressions ii. iv. 137 He complimented me on my literary première and told me to keep on writing. 1937New Republic 19 May 48/1 Miss Gaynor [arrives] at another preemeer in smart mourning. 1941Commonweal 10 Jan. 294/1 The movie première—pronounced pre-meer, with heavy emphasis on the second syllable—is a national phenomenon. 1957Times 9 Sept. 11/4 Each season, when Balmain finally settles down to the production of a new collection of some 150 models, Ginette Spanier is sent away for three weeks' holiday, returning only a few days before the all-important première. 1968S. Challis Death on Quiet Beach viii. 115 Fane was due to attend a late premier of his current movie. 1978J. Anderson Angel of Death xiii. 144 ‘I'll be the only actress in the world who could do it justice.’.. ‘I'll come to the premiere.’
▪ II. première, v.|ˈprɛmɪɛə(r), prɪˈmɪə(r)|
Also premier.
[f. prec.]
trans. To present or perform (a play, film, programme, or the like) for the first time; to reveal (a new product). Also absol. and intr. for pass. Hence premiˈered, premiering ppl. adjs.
1940Winchell Coll. (Topeka, Kansas) Jrnl. 11 Dec. 4/6 There's irony in the request of Grinnell college's alumni that Frank Capra should premiere ‘Meet John Doe’ there. 1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues v. 70 With..Gordon Collins, Lew Hall, all-time end men, premiering on the flanks, you'd feel a strange enchantment creeping over you. 1943Newsweek 13 Sept. 101 Keepsakes, a new Sunday program..premièred on Blue Sep. 5, 8–8:30. 1945G. Antheil Bad Boy of Music ii. 16 This symphony, my ‘First Symphony’, was later to be premiered in Berlin. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 387 A few of its [sc. Variety's] characteristic inventions will suffice:..to premier (often shortened to to preem). 1952‘E. Box’ Death in Fifth Position (1954) i. 2 My company is going to première an important new ballet tonight. Ibid. vii. 181 By the time Eclipse was to be premièred, Ella had infuriated Miles..by threatening to leave the company. 1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 141/1 He [sc. W. G. Fuller]..was co-composer and arr. of..The Swedish Suite premiered at Carnegie Hall '48. 1967N.Y. Herald Tribune Internat. 11–12 Feb. 5/4 André Kostelanetz, who commissioned the work and premiered it 25 years ago, asked Mr. Lindsay to do the reading and will conduct the performance. 1973Times 11 Apr. 12/7 In Frankfurt the Theater am Turm, which has premiered most of Peter Handke's plays, is run on similarly cooperative lines. 1975Publishers Weekly 1 Dec. 62/3 He managed to keep the title in the public eye until the film premiered in December 1939. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 20/2 The premiere of a bizarre Scots drama, Menzies McKillop's Future Pit, now joined in repertory by a premiering trio of one-acters: Frank B. Ford's Waterman, Gladden Schrock's Glutt, and Michael Casales' Cold. Ibid. 16 Oct. 10/3 The ABC Evening News..premiered last week..and was notable in at least two respects. 1977Custom Car Nov. 13/4 Saab premiered their long-rumoured Turbo 99. |