foretaste en · NOUN · etymology 1
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Etymology
From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).
Meanings
- A taste beforehand.
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A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
About two weeks ago I had another foretaste of success and immediately on it a veritable disaster.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| foretastes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (19)
it pregustazione (taste taken in advance) · fi esimaku (taste taken in advance) · fr avant-goût (taste taken in advance) · oc abansgost (taste taken in advance) · de Vorgeschmack (taste taken in advance) · da forsmag (taste taken in advance) · pl przedsmak (taste taken in advance) · it presentimento (taste taken in advance) · nb forsmak (taste taken in advance) · nn forsmak (taste taken in advance) · ru предвкуше́ние (taste taken in advance) · pdt Väaschmak (taste taken in advance) · it prelibazione (taste taken in advance) · hu ízelítő (taste taken in advance) · sv försmak (taste taken in advance) · nn føresmak (taste taken in advance) · bg предвкусване (taste taken in advance) · oc abanstast (taste taken in advance) · nl voorproefje (taste taken in advance)