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Definition of Proface
1. interj. Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.
Definition of Proface
1. Interjection. (obsolete) Much good may it do you! — a familiar salutation or welcome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proface
1. may it profit you [interj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proface
Literary usage of Proface
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1808)
"The author had at first proposed to proface this Catalogue with fi " concise rev
11 w ot the present state of the Fine Arts in Kng- land," but he has ..."
2. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low, Publishers' Circular, Sampson Low, Son and Marston (1882)
"... (PK) Printing for Amateurs: Guide to the Art of Printing, p. 8vo, Is 'Bazaar' Of.
...ЩО Kays of Sunlight for Dark Days, proface by CJ Vaughan, new edit. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"proface. Л familiar exclamation of welcome at a dinner, or other meal, equivalent
to " much good may it do you;1' but from what language derived, ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"proface. Л familiar exclamation of welcome at a dinner, or other meal, ...
The Frenchman suya munge, proface, monsieur. Taylor uses it also in his own ..."
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