preluding

preluding

1. present participle and gerund of prelude

preluding (plural preludings)

1. Something serving as a prelude; an introductory work or remark.
   • 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe:

     In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.