pre|am|ble

pre|am|ble
pre|am|ble «PREE AM buhl», noun.
1. a preliminary statement; introduction to a speech or a writing. The reasons for a law and its general purpose are often stated in a preamble. »

This is a long preamble of a tale (Chaucer).

2. a preliminary or introductory fact or circumstance, especially one showing what is to follow: »

This was the preamble of the great troubles that…followed (Robert Blair).

╂[< Old French preambule, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin praeambulum, noun use of adjective, preliminary (in Late Latin, walking before) < Late Latin praeambulāre < Latin prae- before + ambulāre to walk]

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