Chiefly Sc. Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + ENTRY, ENTRESSE.] A front entrance, vestibule.
1535. Coverdale, Jer. xxxvii. 21. Then Sedechias the kynge commaunded to put Ieremy in the fore entrie off the preson, and dayle to be geuen him a cake of bred.
a. 1557. Diurnal Occurrents (1833), 44. Layand thair artilȝerie in the abbay thairof, with tuelf cannonis on the foirentres.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. (1846), I. 121. The Englismen seing no resistance, hurlled by force of men cannounes up the calsay to the Butter-throne, or above, and hasarded a schoote at the for-entree of the Castell.
1673. Wedderburn, Voc., 11 (Jam.). Propylaeum, a fore-entresse.
