foregroup

== English == === Etymology === From fore- +‎ group. === Noun === foregroup (plural foregroups) A previous or prior grouping or assemblage. A group positioned in the fore or out front. 1987, Jewish quarterly review: Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones were "terrestrialized" in a lower station.