signe précurseur

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{n} forerunner
a forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor
a postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own
a precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead
{n} one sent before, a prognostic, a sign
A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
a runner at the front or ahead
{i} ancestor; one sent in advance, one who comes before; sign of that which is to come, portent, omen
anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
If you describe a person or thing as the forerunner of someone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen. a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter = precursor
an indication of the approach of something or someone
A predecessor; an ancestor
A piece of rag terminating the log line