preprandial

I do not want to come between Parliament and its preprandial democratic duty.

So consider breaking out the Champagne for a preprandial drink.

And if we need to linger over a preprandial drink at the bar, so much the better.

For a preprandial aperitif in summer's heat, nothing beats a Kir.

He had been surprisingly pleasant and subdued since the bizarre preprandial shark feeding.

We're assembled in the parlor for preprandial sherry.

Patients may only record negative urine testing results in the preprandial state and starve themselves before the diabetic clinic.

I was subdued after the preprandial violence.

The college preprandial grace is always recited before formal dinners in Hall and usually by the senior postmaster present.

If I cook, I sometimes have to sacrifice my preprandial drink for the sake of the sauce.

Dipped in high quality extra-virgin olive oil, the rolls made a delicious preprandial warm-up.

I rarely serve preprandial food.

The preprandial grace is read by the Bible Clerk at Formal Hall.

Let's face it, the preprandial glass of white wine is a time filler; it's something to do with one's hands, like Bette Davis's cigarette.

No alcoholic beverages would be served at the fantasia, and Cyrus enjoyed a preprandial nip of whiskey.

The college preprandial grace reads:

Postprandial (noun form: postprandium) means after eating a meal while preprandial is before a meal.

The tone is indelibly set when the three Misses Morkan lead off the evening's preprandial songfest with a trio.

(That deserves a prehumous award presented at a preprandial event, which would mean "before a dinner honoring a person still alive.")

I did not need to look up "preprandial" in the dictionary because I am a WASP.

At Alle Testiere that evening, we had time only for a few cicheti, or snacks, with our preprandial slurps of white wine.

However, the amount of short-acting insulin may be varied depending on the patient's preprandial fingerstick glucose, in order to correct pre-existing hyperglycemia.

A little later, heading for the bar for a preprandial drink, we passed through the sitting room and admired its tree, all red ribbons and straw folk ornaments.