antepast means A foretaste. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ANTEPAST — [Noun] A foretaste or appetizer, especially a preliminary course of food intended to stimulate the appetite. From the Latin prefix ante- ("before") and Latin pastus ("food, pasture"). Unlike "foretaste," which samples an abstract future, or "appetizer," a serviceable modern label, antepast carries the quiet gravity of an archaic ritual—a structured promise of a meal to come. It is the briny olive that makes the wine sing, the cool oyster slipped from its shell, the thimble of chilled fino sherry that sharpens the edge of the evening; a deliberate, savory covenant whose true purpose is to make you aware of your own gathering hunger.
noun
- A foretaste.“1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
antepasts of joy and comforts”