All 4 Uses of
breadth
in
The Yellow Wallpaper
- There is one place where two breadths didn't match, and the eyes go all up and down the line, one a little higher than the other.†
- It is repeated, of course, by the breadths, but not otherwise.†
- Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.†
- They have used a horizontal breadth for a frieze, and that adds wonderfully to the confusion.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(breadth) the distance between two sides; or the range of variety -- especially a broad range of knowledge
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, at one time a breadths described a piece of cloth of full width.