A quick look or glance directed forward; a preliminary or cursory observation made in advance.
Compound of 'fore-' (before) and 'glance' (a quick look). Likely a poetic or literary term developed to describe anticipatory observation or reconnaissance.
This feels like a Romantic-era poetic word—used by writers to describe those meaningful forward-looking glances characters give before departing or departing, suggesting both spatial and temporal movement with a single word.
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