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Premiere

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means the first public performance or showing of a play, film, or event
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Stage 1 of 2
premiere
French · medieval
"first"
first, feminine form of premier, describing the first performance of a work
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Stage 2 of 2
premiere
English · 1890s
"the first public performance of a show or film"
settled as the word for the first public performance of a work
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