Both Uses of
oblong
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.†
Chpt 5 *
- The oblong skull beneath did not turn to meet this shaft of thought and yet the shaft came back to its bowstring; for he saw in a moment the student's whey-pale face.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(oblong) an elongated shape -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle