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ˈthree-ˈsided, a.
(stress var.)
Having three sides, trilateral (either as a plane figure or flat body with three edges, triangular; or as a solid figure or body with three lateral surfaces, trihedral); fig. having three parts or aspects.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 489 In the triumph..he made a shew of three-sided tables, cub-bourds, and bourds, supported by one foot all of brasse. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Three-sided stem,..having three plane sides. 1823H. J. Brooke Introd. Crystallogr. 115 Dodecahedrons with triangular planes, appearing as three-sided pyramids on the planes of the tetrahedron. 1878H. H. Gibbs Ombre 8 One of those three-sided tables with pits in them to hold the counters. 1901Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 10/1 The taste of Queen Victoria in books was..a three-sided taste. |