fore-court

They drove to a modest suburb of the great ingenious town, and stopped at the fore-court of a small house.

Mugby Junction 2007

They drove to a modest suburb of the great ingenious town, and stopped at the fore-court of a small house.

Mugby Junction 2007

‘Lord guide us!’ and ‘Eh sirs!’ ejaculations which threw no light upon the cause of their dismay, Waverley repaired to the fore-court, as it was called, where he beheld Bailie Macwheeble cantering his white pony down the avenue with all the speed it could muster.

Waverley 2004

When Hamish emerged from the hotel, a couple of tractors with snowploughs attached had cleared the hotel fore-court and even the narrow road outside had already been ploughed and salted.

Death of a Dentist Beaton, M. C. 1997

The baptistery itself stood, in the usual way, west of the tower and in the midst of the fore-court.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire

I led the way across the little fore-court, paled off from the street by wooden railings, gently opened the door, and walked in to the dark passage.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

At length it turned abruptly -- thundered through a narrow archway into a fore-court, and then through a second, into the dark quadrangle of the half ruinous and vast hotel, to which we conducted Lucille.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

Close to the royal dwelling was the fore-court, as often dressed out with flowers and lawn as with tiles and flags.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

The court was utterly deserted, and the gate leading from it into the fore-court was closed and barred.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

The eastern division has formed the usual porch of entrance from the fore-court, with an arch eastwards towards the church, and two small doorways north and south from the covered walks of the fore-court.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire