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preambulate en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + ambulate, or from Latin praeambulo, praeambulatus.

Meanings

1. To walk before; figuratively, to precede.
   • “Lolita, or the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” such were the two titles under which the writer of the present note received the strange pages it preambulates. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC:

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