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forebook en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + book.

Meanings

  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? 2001, Martin McQuillan, Deconstruction:
    • At Wisconsin, Galpin also wrote a "forebook" to what was to be an eight-book series on rural life [...] 2010, Julie N. Zimmerman, Olaf F. Larson, Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives:

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