"forebook" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + book.",
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          "ref": "2001, Martin McQuillan, Deconstruction:",
          "text": "Could it be that for the writer everything happens in a forebook whose end he cannot see, whose end is in his book?",
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          "text": "At Wisconsin, Galpin also wrote a \"forebook\" to what was to be an eight-book series on rural life [...]",
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          "word": "fore-book"
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  "word": "forebook"
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