proem

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After a moment or two, I said, “Well, some died in the war, and, if you read the proem carefully, you’ll recall that others died ‘through their own recklessness.’

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

With this bold proem, George R. Barnes, director of BBC's "Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting.

From Time Magazine Archive

The opening—the proem I believe he calls it—is very beautiful. 

From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward

Perhaps that proem may yet be recovered as good salvage from the waters of oblivion, which sooner or later overwhelm all magazines.

From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

In fact, the reign of George 1. was little more than the proem to the history of England Under the House of Brunswick.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter