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Definition
a preliminary introduction to a speech, statute, or other writing — usually explaining its purpose
or more rarely:
anything that precedes something else
or more rarely:
anything that precedes something else
- "Yes, dear?" she rejoined, so gently that he wondered at the lack of wonder with which she received this preamble.Chapter 32 (69% in)
There are no more uses of "preamble" in The Age of Innocence.
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