foregroup

Etymology

From fore- + group.

foregroup means A previous or prior grouping or assemblage. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.

noun

A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.“The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the chimney of a parafiin lamp; […]”
A group positioned in the fore or out front.“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.”