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quadrangle
Part of speech: NounA foursided court or lawn, surrounded by buildings, especially on a college campus; a plane figure with four angles and four sides.
Usage examples "quadrangle":- The cavalcade was drawn up in the quadrangle, and Giovanni was on the point of mounting, when, of a sudden, a rumbling noise, as of distant thunder, but too continuous for that, arrested him, his foot already in the stirrup. - "The Shame of Motley", Raphael Sabatini.
- The Duke of Connaught had his headquarters at Amersham Hall School on the Caversham side of the Thames, which was, of course, closed in consequence of the war, and half an hour after the Auriole had left the grounds of Buckingham Palace she was settling to the ground in the great quadrangle of the school. - "The World Peril of 1910", George Griffith.
- He learned at the porter's lodge the number of the court, and then passed in, following his directions, through a quadrangle that was all alight with scarlet creepers, where three or four ecclesiastics saluted him, up a staircase or two, and found himself at last at a tall door bearing the number he wanted. - "Dawn of All", Robert Hugh Benson.