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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prelude /ˈprɛljuːd/
▶noun
- 1 an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
- 2 a piece of music serving as an introduction, e.g. to an act of an opera or to a suite or a fugue.
■ the introductory part of a poem or other literary work.
– derivatives
preludial adjective.
preludial adjective.
– origin C16: from Fr. prélude, from med. L. praeludium, from L. praeludere ‘play beforehand’.
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