"forespace" meaning in All languages combined

See forespace on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: forespaces [plural]
Etymology: From fore- + space. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|fore|space}} fore- + space Head templates: {{en-noun}} forespace (plural forespaces)
  1. Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground
    Sense id: en-forespace-en-noun-XjBp9aTy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1965, Paul D. Spreiregen, Urban Design, the Architecture of Towns and Cities",
          "text": "Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.",
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        {
          "ref": "1993, David Whitney, Jeffrey Kipnis, Philip Johnson: the Glass House",
          "text": "In this case the living room attempts to address both the forespace or the virtual court, on the one side, and the valley-panorama on the other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision",
          "text": "The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London",
          "text": "At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.",
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