amorces

Noun

amorce (plural amorces)

1. A hint about the future; an instance of foreshadowing.
   • The anti-Americanism — or anti-Carterism, because Schmidt is basically pro-American — was in a way worrying, although if the dollar crisis is such an amorce for economic and monetary union, I am prepared, up to a point, to go along with it.1989, Roy Jenkins, European Diary: 1977-1981, page 225
2. A percussion cap or detonator.
   • In March Messrs. Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., imported without a licence a consignment of 500 imitation cigarette cases, each containing a roll of amorces arranged in such a manner that an amorce was fired each time the case was opened, and the goods were placed under dentention by the Customs.1912, Great Britain Home Office, Explosives Act, 1875, page 12