What is any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length called?
alley — (Persp.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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