English
forecloth
From fore- + cloth.
Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’
Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’
Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’
English fore-
Proto-Germanic *klaiþą ‘garment’
Proto-West Germanic *klaiþ
Old English clāþ ‘cloth, clothes, covering, sail’
Middle English cloth
English cloth
Today it means
noun antependium
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / forecloth