diamond-shaped love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a lozenge; rhombic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.

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Examples

  • Years later she became the infamous Cat Girl, connoisseur of what diamond-shaped love belonged to others: Marquise, Emerald, Radiant, Pear, Asscher, 24 Carat and beyond.

    Cat People #9: Tales of Manhattan David Woodruff 2011

  • Landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux of Central Park fame designed the diamond-shaped green space in 1866.

    Ditmas Park Keeps Getting Rediscovered Joseph De Avila 2011

  • In addition to the experience being a diamond dealer's daughter, Ms. Oltuski spent 2½ years researching and writing her nearly 400-page account on the Diamond District, a stretch of 47th Street sandwiched by Fifth and Sixth Avenues and anchored by towering diamond-shaped lamps on all four corners.

    Changing Facets of the Diamond District Alexandra Cheney 2011

  • Told in a series of diamond-shaped poems, with sporadic prose every few chapters, Frost has woven a beautiful coming-of-age story fraught with realism and magic.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • One problem: Finding shades to fit the diamond-shaped windows.

    An Angular Challenge in Rye Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

  • The vine had diamond-shaped leaves the size of hands sprouting from it, and along its length more curling tendrils sprouted, all light green with jagged red stripes.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

  • Each diamond-shaped patch is placed in sequences of four around a central diamond-shaped floral motif featuring a basket of flowers.

    Jane Austen: Seamstress and Quilter Linda 2009

  • Each diamond-shaped patch is placed in sequences of four around a central diamond-shaped floral motif featuring a basket of flowers.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Linda 2009

  • The house is particularly unusual looking, composed of a series of six two-story diamond-shaped segments that cascade down a slope.

    Top Architects Go Local Nancy Keates 2011

  • Others echoed the Alhambra, but with modern accents: a massive diamond-shaped window, glazed silver-blue, or an enormous inverted pyramid resting on its point.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

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