Forebook

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A prelude to a book or series of books; a preface.

    "Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book?"

Example

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"Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book?"

Etymology

From fore- + book.

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