"pretheater" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999 March 29, Enid Nemy, “Metropolitan Diary”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "We picked up our tickets and stopped next door to have a pretheater drink.",
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          "ref": "2000 February 9, Rick Marin, “Fashionably Early: New York Starts Buzzing Before Dusk”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Metrazur, in Grand Central Terminal, throws in a free miniature \"suitcase\" with its pretheater meal, filled with cookies to munch on during intermission and a $3 MetroCard for the commute to Broadway.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002 November 3, Bruce McCall, “NEW YORK OBSERVED; For Every Light on Broadway, a Case of Indigestion”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "If time just doesn't allow for a pretheater restaurant dinner, some places -- Broadway Sal's is one -- can arrange to deliver dinner right to your theater seat.",
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          "ref": "2005, Janet Ware, Al Davis, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "It's not necessary to be an expert on British royals before you see one of Shakespeare's history plays, but a little pretheater preparation never hurts.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Donald Olson, Frommer's London from $95 a Day, 10th Edition, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Even though a la carte prices aren't outrageous, we recommend the three-course pretheater menu.",
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        "Before attending the theater (especially of drinks or a meal)."
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          "ref": "1998, Karen Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "During the early, pretheater period (ca. 700-1350), both religious and secular performing arts prospered.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2000 February 9, Rick Marin, “Fashionably Early: New York Starts Buzzing Before Dusk”, in New York Times:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 November 3, Bruce McCall, “NEW YORK OBSERVED; For Every Light on Broadway, a Case of Indigestion”, in New York Times:",
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          "ref": "2005, Janet Ware, Al Davis, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "It's not necessary to be an expert on British royals before you see one of Shakespeare's history plays, but a little pretheater preparation never hurts.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2006, Donald Olson, Frommer's London from $95 a Day, 10th Edition, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:",
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