square-built


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square-built

adj
1. sturdy and strong-looking
2. more broad than tall in appearance
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Adj. 1. square-built - broad and solidly built
robust - sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction; "a robust body"; "a robust perennial"
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square-built

[ˈskwɛəˈbɪlt] adj (squat, person) → tarchiato/a, tozzo/a
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One priest dressed in white robes sat, to represent the angel, by one of the square-built tombs near the junction of nave and transept, and three others, personating the Marys, advanced slowly toward him while they chanted their portion of the same dialog.
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Edwards, as he rather rushed than walked from the house, was the little square-built lawyer, with a large bundle of papers under his arm, a pair of green spectacles on his nose, with glasses at the sides, as if to multiply his power of detecting frauds by additional organs of vision.
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The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
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