preball

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ ball

Adjective

preball (not comparable)

1. Before a ball (social event with dancing).
   • 2000, Clarice Stasz, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy:

     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.