Prologue

Definitions

1. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
2. One who delivers a prologue.
3. A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
4. An individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
5. A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.

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Examples

““H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see⟳ the curtain fall⟳ for the third time on what […] will prove⟳ a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last⟳ Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park⟳ Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]””

“And hither am I come⟳, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;”

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