forelie

verb

forelie

verb

Etymology From fore- + lie.

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:

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