foregate

Etymology
From, , equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) A main entrance or front gate.
 * 2) * 1898, Cheshire Notes and Queries - Volumes 3-4:
 * [...] and, where the nature of the thing admitteth access, there is first a foregate and a wall furnished with turrets, which enclose four or five acres, [...]
 * 1) * 1911, California Outlook ... - Volume 12:
 * And men go back to it today and will continue through the centuries to go, and say to themselves, as they pass through the foregates, the Propylaea, and come out through those marvellous shadows into the sunlight and see across there, [...]
 * 1) * 2005, Estonia: bits from here and there:
 * All the gates of Tallinn were well fortified in the Middle Ages, comprising one or more foregates and the main gate.
 * 1) * 2005, Estonia: bits from here and there:
 * All the gates of Tallinn were well fortified in the Middle Ages, comprising one or more foregates and the main gate.
 * 1) * 2005, Estonia: bits from here and there:
 * All the gates of Tallinn were well fortified in the Middle Ages, comprising one or more foregates and the main gate.
 * All the gates of Tallinn were well fortified in the Middle Ages, comprising one or more foregates and the main gate.