Definition of Pretaste

1. to taste beforehand [v -TASTED, -TASTING, -TASTES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretaste

presymbolic
presymmetry
presymptomatic
presynaptic
presynaptically
presyncope
presynthesized
presystolic
preta
pretape
pretaped
pretapes
pretaping
pretargeting
pretaste (current term)
pretasted
pretastes
pretasting
pretax
pretaxation
pretechnological
pretecta
pretectal
pretectum
preteen
preteenage
preteenager
preteenagers
preteens

Literary usage of Pretaste

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1900)
"Alas! full well do I know that the moorlands will be white again and again before spring really comes ; but none the less this transient pretaste of it has ..."

2. Exposition Memories: Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1916 by George Wharton James, Bertha Bliss Tyler (1917)
"How wonderful they were. How rich the memories of their incomparable beauty. They were the gorgeous pretaste of the repast of floral splendors within that ..."

3. Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes by William Howitt (1842)
"These were, however, but a pretaste of what was to fall on Scotland in the days of the Edwards, and on Berwick as the great stronghold of the Border. ..."

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