foregroup
nounEtymology From fore- + group.
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; […]1897, Edward Jenkins, Pantalas and what They Did with Him:
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.1987, Jewish quarterly review