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forwardmost

American  
[fawr-werd-mohst] / ˈfɔr wərdˌmoʊst /

adjective

  1. all the way at the front; first.


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First recorded in the Earl of Orrery’s 1677 A Treatise of the Art of War, the phrase “front line” refers to the forwardmost part of an army, at which point it might be engaged by the enemy.

From The Guardian

Not the smock-frocked man, getting out of the forwardmost Third, with his stick and bundle, thinks of him, or stops a moment to see him back out and turn into the stable.

From Project Gutenberg