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Definition of Preluded
1. prelude [v] - See also: prelude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preluded
Literary usage of Preluded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Robert Burns and Mrs. Dunlop: Correspondence Now Published in Full for the by Robert Burns (1898)
"... The following new letter to Mrs. Dunlop shows that the nervous breakdown which
fell upon him before November was out was preluded by a bad cold. ..."
2. Guy Mannering: Or the Astrologer by Walter Scott (1878)
"Upon being urged, however, to speak out, he preluded with two or three large
puffs of tobacco-smoke, and out of the cloudy sanctuary which these whiffs ..."