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prelude
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  • Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
  • My favorite song by Duke Ellington's is Prelude to a Kiss.
  • Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come.  (source)
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  • The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking.  (source)
    prelude = something to prepare for what follows
  • Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.†  (source)
  • "Goodness gracious!" aunt Pullet exclaimed, after preluding by an inarticulate scream; "keep her at the door, Sally!†  (source)
  • On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • Thus in one neighborhood in which they had lived, when he was but a child of seven, his father, having always preluded every conversation with "Praise the Lord," he heard boys call "Here comes old Praise-the-Lord Griffiths."†  (source)
  • And it is clear then that everything so far has been a prelude.†  (source)
  • But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.†  (source)
  • Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.†  (source)
  • Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.†  (source)
  • Where was the romantic prelude, with the young man kneeling at my feet?†  (source)
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