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squabness

noun

Etymology

From squab + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The quality of being like a squab

    • 1891, "Critical Notices", The Calcutta Review, volume 183, Thomas S. Smith, page v Squabness appear to be the special characteristic of early Hindu architecture; and it had affinities for the grotesque.
    • I suspect it was the oddity of the shape, the extreme squabness of the volume, that first took my fancy, and then I open the pages--and I have never really closed them.

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