"foretaste" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to something which gives an idea of what something else will be like. For example: "This delicious cookie is just a foretaste of the delicious desserts I will be making at the holiday party."
A welfare bill, placing a cap on total welfare claims and placing conditions on entitlement to housing support for young people, is only a foretaste of the cuts to welfare likely to be spelled out later in the year.
Analysts observed that the rollercoaster trading was a mere foretaste of what could follow when the bubble does burst.
Investors were simply taking profits.So the recent market turbulence may only be a foretaste of what will happen if the world economy deteriorates more significantly, or if central banks decide to tighten monetary policy quickly.
It was widely hailed as a foretaste of deals to come thanks to Europe's single currency.
But was this a foretaste of the growing power of microblogs or a special case?Mr Pan is conscious of being a special case himself, positioned somewhere between the public and the government but closer to the government end.
For the third time in three years, an upsurge in inflation will prompt such a letter from Mervyn King.Mr King gave a foretaste of what he will write when he presented the bank's latest economic forecasts on February 10th.
There was a foretaste of this in late July when Thaksin fans armed with clubs and axes attacked a demonstration by his opponents in the north-eastern city of Udon Thani, injuring around a dozen.
But by pushing for their accession so soon, ASEAN has stored up trouble, of which the Cambodian embarrassment is just a foretaste.
Frugal innovation would put consumer products, of which a $2,000 car was merely a foretaste, within reach of ordinary Indians and Chinese.
There was a foretaste of this on March 2nd, when Alyaksandr Kozulin, another opposition candidate (learning from Ukraine, most opposition factions have united behind Mr Milinkevic), was assaulted, along with several supporters and journalists (the police shot the tyres of a car carrying some of them).
It wants to put a WiMAX radio chip into as many devices as possible, from portable computers to specialised gadgets such as the Kindle.Apple's iPhone and its App Store, which allows iPhone and iPod owners to download applications, also provide a foretaste of how important wireless devices will be for the cloud.
