All 8 Uses

oblong
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost.†
Chpt 4 *
Except that the mirror over the sink has been taken out and replaced by an oblong of tin, and the door has no lock, and there are no razors, of course.†
Chpt 12
The mirrors have been replaced here too by oblongs of dull gray metal, but the urinals are still there, on one wall, white enamel with yellow stains.†
Chpt 13
But no matter what I do, sitting here in the dark, with the searchlights illuminating the oblong of my window, from outside, through the curtains gauzy as a bridal dress, as ectoplasm, one of my hands holding the other, rocking back and forth a little, no matter what I do there's something hilarious about it.†
Chpt 24
He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face.†
Chpt 30
The Prayvaganza is to be held in the covered courtyard, where there's an oblong space, a skylight roof.†
Chpt 33
She gives me an oblong of purple cardboard from a stack of them on the table.†
Chpt 38
I don't want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth.†
Chpt 45

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)