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

  • adjective Shaped like a globe.

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Examples

  • He's speaking of the brand's globe-shaped enamel cuff links — one an emerald green, the other a starry indigo — that the company's founder, Italian bon vivant Fulco di Verdura created for his dear friend Cole Porter when that famous song debuted.

    The Verdura Universe Expands Alexa Brazilian 2011

  • The room was vibrant with elaborate color schemes, crispy white table linen, globe-shaped candleholders, and low lighting.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • The room was vibrant with elaborate color schemes, crispy white table linen, globe-shaped candleholders, and low lighting.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • The old girders now line a grand hallway paved in slate and lit by a line of globe-shaped pendants evocative of votive candles.

    Institute Transforms University Campus Dana Rubinstein 2010

  • Or has a globe-shaped tumor growing out of his shoulder - take your pick.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • Or has a globe-shaped tumor growing out of his shoulder - take your pick.

    The Day the Spaceship Earth Stood Still 2010

  • Both of the brothers worked for years marketing that liqueur, in its distinctive globe-shaped bottle; both were left to figure out what to do next when, in 2006, their father sold Chambord to Brown-Forman -- the liquor behemoth behind Jack Daniel's -- for about $250 million.

    What Sibling Rivalry Has Wrought 2009

  • This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos.

    Happy birthday Luigi Colani « Jahsonic 2008

  • This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos.

    02 « August « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • The geniuses at Microsoft Research have now rolled this touch technology into a globe-shaped PC, aptly named Microsoft Sphere.

    Microsoft Sphere a touchy subject | Sync Blog 2008

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