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nounovalness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being oval.
Transitory as was this glance, I observed a slightness in her figure, an ovalness in her face, and a vermillion tinge in her cheek, so unlike the round and rosy full-blown look of health which had so well become her when she sung lullaby to her doll on the hay.
1841, Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, Englishwomen in past and present times, page 138
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Finnish soikeus
- soikeusquality
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