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- noun Plural form of
oblong .
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Examples
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All over the courtyard were groups of dancers, arranged in oblongs, half a group watching while half danced.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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All over the courtyard were groups of dancers, arranged in oblongs, half a group watching while half danced.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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All over the courtyard were groups of dancers, arranged in oblongs, half a group watching while half danced.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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All over the courtyard were groups of dancers, arranged in oblongs, half a group watching while half danced.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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The only thing I do a bit differently is that I shape my rolls into long, thin oblongs, rather than cylinders, because I like the plain tiny wedge shaped cookies which result.
Toast: Lindy 2005
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The only thing I do a bit differently is that I shape my rolls into long, thin oblongs, rather than cylinders, because I like the plain tiny wedge shaped cookies which result.
Cookie Swap: Perfectly Plain Lindy 2005
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Suddenly they beheld the double line of British squares -- or, rather, "oblongs" -- with their fringe of steady steel points; and from end to end of the line ran the zigzag of fire -- a fire that never slackened, still less intermitted.
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The oblongs are the print of the large hind feet, which, with the peculiar gait of the rabbit, always come first.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888
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With mathematical accuracy it was divided into squares, oblongs, and narrow strips, which displayed sharply the thousand hues of green of a truck garden.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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Just look at that thrilling Georgian Ministry of Highway Construction, a Jenga-like tower of windowed oblongs from the mid-1970s.
The best architecture of 2011: Jonathan Glancey's choice 2011
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