1651 J. Mayne in W. Cartwright sig. b5 As rich Jewels..in Angles cut, Do with their darted Lightnings strike from far The Eye, like some new many-corner'd Star.
1667 J. Dryden ii. i. 16 Those many corner'd minds, Where Womans crooked fancie, turns, and winds.
1865 E. C. Gaskell i. 30 A strange, many-cornered room.
1969 1 472 It may be impossible to reconcile stabilization policy ... In the process of many-cornered bargaining.., the stabilization objective will suffer.