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adjectiveprefeast (not comparable)
- not comparableBefore a feast.
Many Lubavitch weddings serve just a few pickups before the main meal, maybe some knishes and some egg rolls. Others go all out. The Kassins offered up a prefeast feast.
2003, Stephanie Wellen Levine, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers, page 153
nounprefeast (plural prefeasts)
plural prefeasts
- A feast held before an event.
Like the previous holy day, this one too has a prefeast.
2002, Solia: The Herald, volume 67, page 3
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