forestroke

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbors, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself -- a forestroke and a backstroke, and _tondenti barba cadebat_!

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself, -- a forestroke and a backstroke, and tondenti barba cadebat.

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself, -- a forestroke and a backstroke, and/tondenti barba cadebat/.

My Novel — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838