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Webster 1913 Edition

Foreground

Fore′groundˊ

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Noun.
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf.
Distance
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Noun.
, 6.

Webster 1828 Edition

Foreground

FO'REGROUND

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Noun.
The part of the field or expanse of a picture which seems to lie before the figures.

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