Both Uses of
polyhedron
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle.†
Chpt 1.1.5polyhedron = a solid shape made of flat faces
- An edifice is no longer an edifice; it is a polyhedron.†
Chpt 1.5.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(polyhedron) a solid shape made of flat faces
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus