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forelain

forelain is the past participle of forelie.

Meaning of forelie

Verb

forelie (third-person singular simple present forelies, present participle forelying, simple past forelay, past participle forelain)

  1. (obsolete) To lie in front.
    • Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about forelain

What is forelain the past participle of?
Forelain is the past participle of forelie.

Words near forelain in the dictionary

  1. foreknows
  2. forel
  3. foreladies
  4. forelady
  5. forelaid
  6. forelain
  7. foreland
  8. forelands
  9. forelandward
  10. forelash
  11. forelast

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