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oblong
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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There is a square; there is an oblong.†
The players take the square and place it upon the oblong.†
The structure is now visible; what is inchoate is here stated; we are not so various or so mean; we have made oblongs and stood them upon squares.†
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The oblong has been set upon the square; the spiral is on top.†
A square stands upon an oblong.†
Then in some Hall I parted the boughs of music and saw the house we have made; the square stood upon the oblong.†
Wren's palace, like the quartet played to the dry and stranded people in the stalls, makes an oblong.†
A square is stood upon the oblong and we say, "This is our dwelling-place.†

Definitions:

(1) (oblong)
an elongated shape (having more length than width) -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)