forebooth
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A booth positioned near the front; foreshop
Example Sentences
- "The instrument concludes with the statement that these things were 'done in the forebooth of the tenement or lodging ….'"
- "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."
- "Helen Dunbar had the liferent of this booth (described as a forebooth with a foreshop adjacent) and died about 1605."
- "He also had the forebooth on the south side and the pentice below the outside stairs."