Theater. a drapery or flat piece across the top of the proscenium arch that masks the flies and that, together with the tormentors, forms a frame for the stage opening.
1350-1400;Middle Englishteser machine for teasing wool; see tease, -er1
Examples from the web for teaser
Wall understands that cunning is necessary, too, when dealing with an obsessive teaser and connoisseur of farce.
They were the kind of teaser questions that melodramas-and long, involved primate sagas-end with.
And tempting those of us who are convinced with teaser headlines doesn't help either.
The video above is a teaser for the show, which has been in the works since late last year.
The teaser is not a new addition to media, of course.
They had no skin in the game and will lose nothing if they can't afford the payments when the teaser period ends.
The teaser rate period on loans ends and borrowers have to start paying realistic rates.
Look at jobs that are advertised but consider them a teaser, a conduit to what is out there.
Now this teaser video, which was mostly people and flashlights.
British Dictionary definitions for teaser
teaser
/ˈtiːzə/
noun
1.
a person who teases
2.
a preliminary advertisement in a campaign that attracts attention by making people curious to know what product is being advertised
3.
a difficult question
4.
(vet science) a vasectomized male animal, such as an ox, used to detect oestrus in females
Word Origin and History for teaser
n.
"short sample, introductory advertisement," 1934, agent noun from tease (v.).
Slang definitions & phrases for teaser
teaser
noun
A woman who invites or offers sexual activity but refuses to do the sex act; cock-teaser: Maybe Bella was right in calling his ''uptown lady'' a ''teaser''(1895+)
Anything offered as a sample and intended to increase appetite or desire: He showed them one chapter as a teaser(1934+)