| 释义 |
ˈfore-door
[f. fore- prefix + door.]
A door in the front of a building, a front-door. Now rare.
1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. (1588) 295 His brother..shut the foredoore against them that pursued. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 84 Two doors, one, a foredoor, and the other, a backward. 1696Edwards Exist. & Provid. of God ii. 20 With the mouth (that so visible and useful fore-door of this our humane habitation) we take in food. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 558 The rogues..fastened the fore-door before they left the house. 1811W. Aiton Agric. Surv. Ayrsh. 115 (Jam.) The principal door—was named the fore-door. |