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forebooth en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + booth. Compare Scots forebuith.

Meanings

1. A booth positioned near the front; foreshop
   • This might be rebuilt with permission, or on payment of a fine (set down in borough archives), as a permanent shop or forebooth perhaps, with an unglazed window to the street. 2003, David Iredale, Discovering Local History:
   • The instrument concludes with the statement that these things were 'done in the forebooth of the tenement or lodging ….' 1895, The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries
   • He also had the forebooth on the south side and the pentice below the outside stairs. 2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down o'er the Border:
   • Helen Dunbar had the liferent of this booth (described as a forebooth with a foreshop adjacent) and died about 1605. 2004, Ayr and its People

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