forepart
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of forepart
First recorded in 1350–1400, forepart is from the Middle English word forpart. See fore-, part
Example Sentences
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“I’ve spent the forepart of this afternoon looking for the divorce agreement,” he tells Hardwick, “and fail to find it though once there seemed to be three or four, various versions, in drawers.”
From The New Yorker
"The ship was way down by the head. All the forepart was one vast sheet of flames, and it was raining drops of burning oil."
From BBC
The master, wild with rage, called upon the seaman to take soundings, and, this being done, it was found that the Gannet was held by the heel, the forepart being well afloat.
From Project Gutenberg
Long-tailed Parrakeet, green above; yellow beneath; forepart of the head, cheeks, and wing covers light blue; quills deep blue; lateral tail feathers yellow.
From Project Gutenberg
The whole head and forepart of the neck is black.
From Project Gutenberg
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