foregroup

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ADJ.

latter

VERB + FOREGROUP

composed

FOREGROUP + NOUN

visitors

PREP.

in, into

Definitions

noun

1

A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.

The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the chimney of a parafiin lamp; […]

2

A group positioned in the fore or out front.

Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones were "terrestrialized" in a lower station.

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The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the

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Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones w