E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Fore-shortened.
Not viewed laterally, but more or less obliquely. Thus, a man’s leg lying on the ground, with the sole of the foot nearer the artist than the rest of the body, would be perspectively shortened.
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“He forbids the fore-shortenings, because they make the parts appear little.”—Dryden.
