preprandial

• Perhaps Gorbals had dropped it in his preprandial dash for the exit. —  Home | Mail Online
• Bhang and Kusumbб (opium dissolved and strained through a pledges of cotton) are always drunk before dinner and thus the "jolly" time is the preprandial, not the postprandial FN#161] "Abu al-Sakhб" (pronounced Abussakhб) = Father of munificence FN#162] 'Arab. —  Arabian nights. English
• Orgreave in details of perspective, and by dint of preprandial frequentings of the Sytch, as a gift for Mrs Orgreave. —  Clayhanger
• Lord Guenevere, near whose house the last fox had been killed, while a groom dashed over to Royallieu for his change of clothes -- he caught a glimpse, as they passed through the hall, of the ladies taking their preprandial cups of tea in the library, an enchanting group of lace and silks, of delicate hue and scented hair, of blond cheeks and brunette tresses, of dark velvets and gossamer tissue; and when he had changed the scarlet for dinner-dress, went down among them to be the darling of that charmed circle, to be smiled on and coquetted with by those soft, languid aristocrats, to be challenged by the lustrous eyes of his chatelaine and chere amie, to be spoiled as women will spoil the privileged pet of their drawing rooms whom they had made "free of the guild," and endowed with a flirting commission, and acquitted of anything "serious." —  Under Two Flags
• a pledges of cotton) are always drunk before dinner and thus the "jolly" time is the preprandial, not the postprandial. —  Arabian nights. English

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