Both Uses of
oblong
in
Bleak House
- I knew he meant well in paying me this compliment, so I laughed at myself for blushing at it when he had shut the door and got upon the box; and we all three laughed and chatted about our inexperience and the strangeness of London until we turned up under an archway to our destination—a narrow street of high houses like an oblong cistern to hold the fog.†
Chpt 4-6
- When he has helped himself, Phil follows suit, sitting at the extreme end of the little oblong table and taking his plate on his knees.†
Chpt 25-27 *
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