frontsteadn.
A piece of ground between the front of a house and the road or street; a forecourt, a front garden. Now dialect only.
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vestiary1382
fore-yard1420
forecourt1535
vestibule1623
foregartha1642
antecourt1659
vestibulum1662
frontstead1688
frontcourt1749
paepae1919
1688 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 285 He would make a bonefire on his own frontstead.
1769 Aclome Inclos. Act 11 Houses, frontsteads, garths, gardens, and orchards.
1825 Brighton Commissioners Act §76.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Frontstead, a front site in the line of a street.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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