foregainst

Updated: June 13, 2025

In saying this, he took the head and held it warm foregainst his codpiece, that the wind might not enter into it. Eusthenes and Carpalin carried the body to the place where they had banqueted, not out of any hope that ever he would recover, but that Pantagruel might see it.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2