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Foursquare

noun

(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon. Synonym: square.

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"Foursquare" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tyn plates, a foursquare vpright Pyramis, or a Cone: perfectly fashioned in the holow, within. Wherin, let great diligence be vsed, to approche (as nere as may be) to the Mathematicall perfection of those figures. At their bases, ...

— The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara • John Dee

... London is terrible and ghastly. One knows that; but the wretchedest of its "gamins" knows that it is something else also. More than any place on earth it seems to have that weight, that mass, that depth, that foursquare solidity, which reassures and comforts, in the midst of the illusions of life. It descends so far, with its huge human foundations, that it gives one the impression of a monstrous concrete Base, sunk ...

— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys

Words linked to "Foursquare" : geometry, resolute, quadrate, regular polygon, rectangle