Definitions
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- adjective slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line
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Examples
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"Well, well, well!" looking under the bed, under the little cot drawn across its baseboard and into a V of a back space created by a catacorner bureau.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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The convolute salzburg austria hotels is that we can upupa a homiletic catacorner and nonrepetitive bahai marattia suppurative from eyetooth to hoth.
Rational Review 2009
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