four-square
See also: foursquare and four square
English
Noun
four-square (plural four-squares)
- Alternative spelling of foursquare.
Adjective
four-square (comparative more four-square, superlative most four-square)
- Alternative spelling of foursquare.
- 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 5:
- The reaſon why the Chineſes gave their Kingdom theſe Names, may be ſupposſed to be this ; in regard that formerly they did verily believe that the Heaven was round, the Earth four-ſquare, and in the middle point thereof lay their Kingdom.