"preball" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pre- + ball",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Clarice Stasz, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy",
          "text": "As Alice prepared with her family for the preball dinner, an intimate affair for thirty of Gertrude's closest young friends, she had good reason to worry.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Before a ball (social event with dancing)."
      ],
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        [
          "ball",
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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    }
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  "word": "preball"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
        "3": "ball"
      },
      "expansion": "pre- + ball",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "pre- + ball",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Clarice Stasz, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy",
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      ],
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        "Before a ball (social event with dancing)."
      ],
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        [
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          "ball"
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "preball"
}