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单词 fore-edge
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fore-edgen.

Brit. /ˈfɔːrɛdʒ/, U.S. /ˈfɔrˌɛdʒ/
Etymology: < fore- prefix + edge n.
The front or outer edge; esp. of a leaf in a book, or of the book itself. fore-edge painting (see quot. 1960).
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1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 174 The fore-edge..is arm'd with a multitude of little bristles.
1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 32. 1 To cut heads, tails, and fore-edges at one time.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. III. 420 The book is placed on the shelf with the fore-edge turned outwards.
1892 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Binding of Bk. 14 Catch each succeeding leaf up by the forefinger on the top corner as near the for~edge as possible.
1912 A. J. Philip Business of Bookbinding 199 Foredge painting, pictures found, usually in old books, on the fore-edge of books.
1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Dec. 808/2 A seventeenth-century English Bible..with a signed fore-edge painting.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 143/2 Fore-edge painting, a water colour painted on the fanned out fore-edge of a book.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 23/1 Fore-edge paintings in rare books provide not only delight to collectors but mysteries in more ways than one.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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