English

Noun

pretour ‎(plural pretours)

1. [15^th–17^th CC.] Archaic spelling of praetor.

Etymology 2

pre- +‎ tour

Alternative forms

• pre-tour

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: prē'to͝orʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌpɹiːˈtʊə/

Adjective

pretour ‎(not comparable)

1. [1948–present] Intended or designed for or taking place prior to a tour.
   • 1985, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, The Journal of Social Issues, volume 41, page 109^{(1, 2)}

     ⁽¹⁾ Its procedure included administering the pretour questionnaire to the experimental and control groups[.]

     ⁽²⁾ The pretour measures were administered during the bus ride from Israel to the Egyptian border[.]

   • 2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24

     Photographs taken of tourists proudly smiling in front of historical sites or familiar icons are not just shown, but serve as mnemonic devices for storytelling. And the tales do not merely repeat a pretour story, they embellish, privatize, and transform the master narrative. […¶] Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving throught the site, be it as Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist.

References

• “pre-tour adj.” listed (but not defined) as a derived term of “pre-, prefix”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010]

Anagrams

• trouper

Old French

Noun

pretour m ‎(oblique plural pretours, nominative singular pretours, nominative plural pretour)

1. (Anglo-Norman) praetor

Descendants

• English: praetor