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comparative more foursquare, superlative most foursquare
Having four equal sides; square. quotations examples
From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 41
Out there in the dark the city looked foursquare and massive.
2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 7, in The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group
(by extension) Solid, robust. quotations examples
Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire […].
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
It is surprising to find white wine of apparently low acidity keeping well at all. Yet at ten years (a good age for it today) it has a haunting combination of foursquare breadth and depth with some delicate, intriguing, lemony zest.
1983, Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's modern encyclopedia of wine
Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.
1999, Tom Stevenson, Christie's world encyclopedia of champagne and sparkling wine
(cryptography) Pertaining to a four-square cipher. examples
Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. examples
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Alternative form of four square examples
(cryptography) A four-square cipher. examples
(architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall. examples