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preball

preball adjective: before a ball (social event with dancing).

Adjective

preball (not comparable)

  1. Before a ball (social event with dancing).
    • As Alice prepared with her family for the preball dinner, an intimate affair for thirty of Gertrude's closest young friends, she had good reason to worry.2000, Clarice Stasz, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy

Origin of preball

From pre- + ball.

Questions about preball

What does preball mean?
Preball means before a ball (social event with dancing).
What part of speech is preball?
Preball is an adjective.

Words near preball in the dictionary

  1. prebaits
  2. prebake
  3. prebaked
  4. prebakes
  5. prebaking
  6. preball
  7. preballet
  8. preballot
  9. preballoting
  10. preban
  11. prebankruptcy

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