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Preprandial

//pɹiːˈpɹæn.dɪ.əl// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Occurring before a meal, especially dinner.

    "Whilst meditating on the beauty and design as shown in the ant-eater, whose præprandial movements I was intently watching, a young gentleman (not a naturalist) asked me, sotto voce, "what is that contrivance?" "It is a contrivance," said I, "for catching ants, and that is why he is called the ant-eater," I continued to a young lady, who wanted to know the meaning of his name."

Adjective
  1. 1
    preceding a meal (especially dinner) wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A predinner drink; an apéritif.

    "They drink, for one thing, sweet ports as preprandials, anathema to most English, who consider them digestifs, or after-dinner company."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From pre- + prandial.

Etymology 2

From pre- + prandial.

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