[f. FORE- pref. + SHADOW sb.; suggested by next vb.] fig. A shadow cast before an object; an indication or imperfect representation of something to come.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 115. Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul.
1852. J. M. Ludlow, Master Engineers, 132. A truce is often the foreshadow of a peace, and time works wonders.
1887. Kinglake, Crimea, VIII. 280. The foreshadow of death was then falling on the mind of the Chief, and he did not, I believe, speak again.
