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(obsolete) A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served..
Sweet sir, sit; I’ll be with you anon; most sweet sir, Master Page, good Master Page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have in drink.
Gloria deo, sirs proface, Attend me now whilst I say grace.
Thankes be giuen for flesh and fishes, With this choice of tempting dishes: To which proface: with blythe lookes sit yee, Rush bids this Couent, much good do’t yee.
Use proface when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Proface means (obsolete) A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Sweet sir, sit; I’ll be with you anon; most sweet sir, Master Page, good Master Page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have in drink.
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