"forewinter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, page 381:",
          "text": "Anybody seeing him all that forewinter long going about the sadder verges of the city might have rightly wondered what his trade was, this refugee reprieved from the river and its fishes. Haunting the streets in a castoff peacoat.",
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        "The early part of winter."
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