prolusion

English

Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).

prolusion (plural prolusions)

A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 809623158:
  
  Domestic prolusions.
An introductory essay.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685:
  Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]

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