A setting or arrangement that is placed forward or established in advance.
From Old English 'forth' (forward) + 'set' (to place). The compound emerged in Middle English to describe something positioned prominently or predetermined.
This archaic word reveals how English speakers once distinguished between different ways of establishing or positioning things—we've mostly lost this specificity today, collapsing it all into simple 'set' or 'place.'
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