foregate

Noun

1. A main entrance or front gate.
   • The Lower town which joins to this, is fortified with a Wall and Castle, and a fore-gate at the entrance. - 1722, William Camden, Britannia: Or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
   • … and, where the nature of the thing admitteth access, there is first a foregate and a wall furnished with turrets, which enclose four or five acres, … - 1898, Cheshire Notes and Queries - Volumes 3-4
   • And men go back to it today and will continue through the centuries to go, and say to themselves, as they pass through the foregates, the Propylaea, and come out through those marvellous shadows into the sunlight and...