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Answer for the clue "First part of a signature ", 8 letters:
forename

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Word definitions for forename in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forename \Fore"name`\, v. t. To name or mention before. --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from fore- + name (n.). The equivalent of Latin praenomen . Old English had forenama . Middle English had fore-named in the sense "mentioned before" (c.1200).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Only the main forename you declare will be printed on the licence.

Usage examples of forename.

If only, she ruminated tiredly, it would turn out to be as easy as convincing her newly pubescent daughter to drop the unsuitable and whimsically inappropriate forename Fitzwinkle.

Her legal forename was Victoria, but the other teens all called her Wednesday.

He used the forenames Tiberius Claudius possibly a freed slave named for the old Emperor, but more likely some minor tribal dignitary, honoured as an ally at some past date.