Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being like a squab
1891, "Critical Notices", The Calcutta Review, volume 183, Thomas S. Smith, page v Squabness appear to be the special characteristic of early Hindu architecture; and it had affinities for the grotesque.
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One is a gifted maiden poetess (I am certain she is a gifted maiden poetess), whose squabness of contour, sharpness and redness of nose, and general forty-fiveness of aspect, a little mars the romantic effect of the oleanders which she loves to stick in her hair.
1866, Mary Brotherton, “Karl's First Love”, in Temple Bar, volume 18, Richard Bentley, page 271I suspect it was the oddity of the shape, the extreme squabness of the volume, that first took my fancy, and then I open the pages--and I have never really closed them.
1922, Arthur Machen, Far Off Things, Martin Secker, page 43
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