Ovalness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being oval. uncountable

    "Transitory as was this glance, I observed a slightness in her figure, an ovalness in her face, and a vermillion tinge in her cheek, so unlike the round and rosy full-blown look of health which had so well become her when she sung lullaby to her doll on the hay."

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"Transitory as was this glance, I observed a slightness in her figure, an ovalness in her face, and a vermillion tinge in her cheek, so unlike the round and rosy full-blown look of health which had so well become her when she sung lullaby to her doll on the hay."

Etymology

From oval + -ness.

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