foretaste

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From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- +‎ taste (noun).

foretaste (plural foretastes)

1. A taste beforehand.
2. A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

• foresmack (rare, nonstandard)
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From Middle English fortasten, equivalent to fore- +‎ taste (verb).

foretaste (third-person singular simple present foretastes, present participle foretasting, simple past and past participle foretasted)

1. (transitive) To taste beforehand.
2. (transitive) To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
3. (transitive) To taste before another.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise lost:

     [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

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