forebooth

plural forebooths

1. A booth positioned near the front; foreshop

   He also had the forebooth on the south side and the pentice below the outside stairs.

   2011, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down o'er the Border

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   The instrument concludes with the statement that these things were 'done in the forebooth of the tenement or lodging ….'

   1895, The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries

   This might be rebuilt with permission, or on payment of a fine (set down in borough archives), as a permanent shop or forebooth perhaps, with an unglazed window to the street.

   2003, David Iredale, Discovering Local History

   Helen Dunbar had the liferent of this booth (described as a forebooth with a foreshop adjacent) and died about 1605.

   2004, Ayr and its People