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prolusion noun[ C ] literature specializeduk /prəˈluː.ʒən/ us /prəˈluː.ʒən/ a short piece of writing that is done as an exercise : His early poems and some of his prose prolusions speak of wanderings in the city and the nearby countryside. Milton's sixth Prolusion described his return from a holiday in "that city which is chief of all cities." The prolusion in which the statement occurs is so full of contradictions that almost nothing in it can be accepted as true, or discarded as false. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Papers and compositions boilerplate composition corresponding author dissertation essay essay question essayistic monograph palimpsest paper peer review review thesis tract treatise |