Antepast


a foretaste; appetizer.
historical examples

it is but a taste, a foretaste, an antepast of the feast of heaven.
henry martyn saint and scholar george smith

the mildness of the sentence was an antepast of a more enlarged liberty under the new form of government.
sages and heroes of the american revolution l. carroll judson

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