anteprandial
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of anteprandial
Example Sentences
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The old-timers and the new took their anteprandial cocktail or toddy, and hospitably invited Barclay to join.
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Anteprandial, an-te-prand′i-al, adj. before dinner.
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Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: The muffled astounded by the unmuffled during an anteprandial peregrination.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There's one thing about a college education which Mr. Huntington didn't mention last evening," Thatcher remarked to Cosden as they walked toward the bar for the anteprandial cocktail; "it gives a boy freedom of action and breadth of imagination."
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Just before meal-time the cafés are crowded with people indulging in one of the renowned trio of appetizers, one of the great triumvirate of anteprandial potations—bittère, vermouth and absinthe.
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