The front panel or front portion of a skirt; the visible forward part of a skirt or similar garment.
Fore- (front) + skirt (garment). A compound describing the physical location of the front panel, from Old Norse 'skyrta' meaning shirt or skirt.
Foreskirt is a genuinely useful historical garment term that's been almost completely replaced by simply saying 'front of the skirt'—it's a reminder that English had more granular clothing vocabulary before industrialization standardized garment parts and we started using generic positional terms instead.
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