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Example sentences for: forerunners

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These were the forerunners of the geisha — literally “accomplished person” — with a beauty and refinement that the merchants did not seek in their wives, whom they valued for their childbearing and good housekeeping.
Dukes, administrators, and clergy lived in towns rather than isolated castles, absorbing the hinterland into communes, forerunners of the city-states.