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prequel

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prequel
/pree"kweuhl/, n.
a literary, dramatic, or filmic work that prefigures a later work, as by portraying the same characters at a younger age.
[1970-75; PRE- + (SE)QUEL]

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      a literary or dramatic work whose story precedes that of an earlier-written work. For example, Lillian Hellman (Hellman, Lillian)'s play Another Part of the Forest (1946) portrays the earlier lives of the characters she first wrote about in The Little Foxes (1939).

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