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单词 forespace
释义

forespace

English

Etymology

From fore- + space.

Noun

forespace (plural forespaces)

  1. Any space or area positioned toward the front (e.g. of a room, building, plot, landscape, scenery, etc.); foreground
    • 1965, Paul D. Spreiregen, Urban Design, the Architecture of Towns and Cities:
      Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.
    • 1993, David Whitney, ‎Jeffrey Kipnis, Philip Johnson: the Glass House:
      In this case the living room attempts to address both the forespace or the virtual court, on the one side, and the valley-panorama on the other.
    • 1996, Lisa Knopp, Field of Vision:
      The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.
    • 2007, Lena Cowen Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London:
      At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.
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