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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forepart

Fore part \Fore" part`\, or Forepart \Fore"part`\, n. The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forepart

also fore-part, c.1400, from fore- + part (n).

Wiktionary
forepart

n. The front or anterior part of something

WordNet
forepart

n. the side that is forward or prominent [syn: front, front end] [ant: rear]

Usage examples of "forepart".

There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which terminated in the engine and propeller, and the men and magazines were forward in a series of cabins under the expanded headlike forepart.

The spawn beat the foreparts of their bodies upon the ground and then were still.

A woman of rank will not drive out without one of these pages seated in the forepart of her carriage.

After breakfast we set out, I sitting in the forepart of the carriage, facing Marcoline and Dame Veneranda, who would have made me laugh under any other circumstances, her astonishment at finding herself in a more gorgeous carriage than the ambassador's was so great.

On the forepart of the crown gleamed a small round convex lens crafted of dark crystal.