forespace

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ space.

Noun

forespace (plural forespaces)

1. Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground
   • 1965, Paul D. Spreiregen, Urban Design, the Architecture of Towns and Cities:

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

   • 1993, David Whitney, Jeffrey Kipnis, Philip Johnson: the Glass House:

     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.

   • 1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision:

     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.

   • 2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London:

     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.