precode

precode (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of pre-Code
2. Prior to the introduction of the Hays Code, a set of moral guidelines for the US film industry widely applied between 1930 and 1968.
   • 2007 April 22, Terrence Rafferty, “The Infinite Variety of the Lady Stanwyck”, in New York Times‎:

     The other precode film in the retrospective, Frank Capra’s “Bitter Tea of General Yen” (also 1933), isn’t quite so junkily entertaining.

precode (third-person singular simple present precodes, present participle precoding, simple past and past participle precoded)

1. To code in advance

• copered, proceed