(AmE also prolog) noun
a speech, etc. at the beginning of a play, book, or film/movie that introduces it:
the Prologue to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
compareEPILOGUE
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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