four-square

See also: foursquare and four square

English

Noun

four-square (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of foursquare
   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, 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.