Forespace

Quick meaning: Forespace is a noun meaning Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground.

Meaning

Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground.

Example Sentences

Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• forespaces

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fore, forestream, forefront, forepart, foreposition, forescreen.

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