oblong

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Above the oblong was a salamander, the King’s particular device, with many other ornaments appropriate to the Ionic architecture of the whole design Note 1.

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  1. adjective Deviating from a square, circular, or spherical form by being elongated in one direction.
  2. adjective Having the shape of or resembling a rectangle or an ellipse.
  3. adjective Botany Having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides: an oblong leaf.

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  1. Middle English, from Latin oblongus : ob-, intensive pref. (sense uncertain); see ob- + longus, long; see del-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French oblong = Spanish Portuguese Italian oblongo, from Latin oblongus, rather long, relatively long (not in the def. geometrical sense, but applied to a shaft of a spear, a leaf, a shield, a figure, hole, etc.; prob. literally ‘long forward,’ projecting), from ob, before, near, + longus, long.
 

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