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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