four-square
See also: foursquare and four square
English
Noun
four-square (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of foursquare
- 1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, 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.
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