Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FORESHORTENINGS
Noun
foreshortenings
plural of foreshortening
Source: Wiktionary
FORESHORTENING
Fore*short"en*ing, n. (Fine Arts)
Definition: Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.
FORESHORTEN
Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (Fine Art)
Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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