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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having eight angles.

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

  • adjective Having eight angles; eight-angled.

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  • adjective Octagonal, with eight angles.

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  • adjective of or relating to or shaped like an octagon

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Examples

  • From Chia we went to see the center of Cota: it has an octangular central plaza.

    The Cheese Run « Unknowing 2010

  • The mausoleum of Selim II was a square structure, wrapped around an octangular upper story that was capped by a mottled lead dome.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • The mausoleum of Selim II was a square structure, wrapped around an octangular upper story that was capped by a mottled lead dome.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • The mausoleum of Selim II was a square structure, wrapped around an octangular upper story that was capped by a mottled lead dome.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Saint Bernard himself, being composed of what was then called Burrel cloth, exactly fitted to the size of the wearer, and bearing on the left shoulder the octangular cross peculiar to the Order, formed of red cloth.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Alyosha gazed for half a minute at the coffin, at the covered, motionless dead man that lay in the coffin, with the ikon on his breast and the peaked cap with the octangular cross on his head.

    The Brothers Karamazov 2003

  • The most striking object in the place is the belfry of the cathedral, a detached octangular tower, roofed with a pear-shaped dome, of coloured tiles, and commanding from the summit a fine view of the plains from the sea to the distant mountains.

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

  • On the North side stands a tower of an octangular form, supporting the spire.

    Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

  • It is from that spot that rises the spire (_flèche_), which is an octangular pyramid of an extraordinary boldness, offering to the astonished gazer nothing of a massive construction.

    Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

  • The square tower, with octangular cupola, attached to the north side of the chancel, was part of a former church constructed in the time of

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

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