Forehead vs Foretop - What's the difference?
forehead | foretop |
The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
*1865 , (Lewis Carroll), (w, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) , Macmillan
*:'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 (obsolete) The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
(obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.
(obsolete) In the phrase, to take time'' (or ''occasion'' or ''opportunity'') ''by the foretop , meaning "to boldly seize an opportunity".
(obsolete) A fop; one who sports a foretop.
An erect tuft of hair.
The forelock of a horse.
(nautical) A platform at the top of the foremast, supported by the trestle trees.
The front seat at the top of a horse-drawn vehicle.
As nouns the difference between forehead and foretop
is that forehead is the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline while foretop is (obsolete) the top of the head; the top of the forehead.forehead
English
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(en noun)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead , whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.