foremother in the PONS Dictionary

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The professor, poet, cultural critic, architect, and foremother of the racial environmental-justice movement published 27 books during her lifetime.
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Aeolian modes have all female participants, and one female is both foremother and forefather.
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In the second case there is a male forefather and female foremother, but either individual may become the hindmother, and the hindmother may or may not also be the hindfather.
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The unmodified mode name is used when the foremother is also the hindmother.
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