quadrangle

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  1. noun Mathematics Quadrilateral.
  2. noun A rectangular area surrounded on all four sides by buildings.
  3. noun The buildings bordering this area.
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  • The opposite flank of the quadrangle is a kind of ornamental palisade, or open screen of Gothic stonework, the spaces of which are filled up by iron railings. —  Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
  • The crowd in the quadrangle was as still and as silent as the night itself. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • On the ground floor of this quadrangle was a spacious hall; the roof of which was arched with carved timber of curious workmanship. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • On the west side of the quadrangle was another cloister, on five arches, over which were the duke's lodgings and over them the queen's gallery. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • On the north side of the quadrangle is the Roman Catholic parish church, a fine building in the Gothic style, with a high spire and moulded entrance doorway, built in 1851 Immediately opposite, across the road, is St. Mary's Training College for elementary school masters. —  Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin quadrangulum, from Latin, neuter of quadrangulus, four-cornered : quadri-, quadri- + angulus, angle.

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  1. from French quadrangle = Spanish cuadrángulo = Portuguese quadrangulo = Italian quadrangolo, from Late Latin quadrangulum, a four-cornered figure, a quadrangle, neuter of Latin quadrangulus, quadriangulus, four-cornered, from quattuor (combining form quadr-, quadri-, quadru-, the adjective quadrus, square, being later), + angulus, an angle, a corner: see angle.
 

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