preprandial
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preprandial
- /pɹiːˈpɹæn.dɪ.əl/ UK
- /ˌpɹiˈpɹæn.di.əl/ US
adjective praeprandial · præprandial · pre-prandial
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Occurring before a meal, especially dinner.
Whilst meditating on the beauty and design as shown in the ant-eater, whose præprandial movements I was intently watching, a young gentleman (not a naturalist) asked me, sotto voce, "what is that contrivance?" "It is a contrivance," said I, "for catching ants, and that is why he is called the ant-ea
Similar: anteprandial, predinner, premeal, precibal
Opposite: postprandial
noun preprandials · praeprandial · præprandial · pre-prandial
- A predinner drink; an apéritif. They drink, for one thing, sweet ports as preprandials, anathema to most English, who consider them digestifs, or after-dinner company.
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Opposite: postprandial
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adj preceding a meal
| Français | préprandial |
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noun predinner drink
| Deutsch | appetitanregendes Getränk, Aperitif |
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title = {preprandial},
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