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Having four equal sides; square.
*2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p, 41:
*: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.
(by extension) Solid, robust.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
* 1983 , Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's modern encyclopedia of wine
* 1999 , Tom Stevenson, Christie's world encyclopedia of champagne and sparkling wine
(cryptography) Pertaining to a (four-square cipher).
(architecture, US) A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
Pertaining to the (International Church of the Foursquare Gospel).
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has no English definition.
As an adjective foursquare
is having four equal sides; square.As a noun foursquare
is alternative form of lang=en.foursquare
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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 […].
- 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.
- Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.