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noun

Breadth n.

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

(Fine Arts) The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; called also breadth of effect. "Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Breadth" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the dusk, but could see no one; he fell into another fit of furious raving, but not a hair-breadth would one link of chain yield to his ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 • Various

... pity you," cried Faith, almost cheerily. "He will understand the length and breadth of your temptation, Maggie, as well as the ...

— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... thought how Elzevir had gone to shoot her father, and only failed of it by a hair's-breadth, and yet she spoke so well I thought he never really meant to shoot at all, but only to scare the magistrate. And what a whirligig of time was here, that I should have saved Elzevir from having that blot on his conscience, and then that he should save my life, ...

— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner

... the sword was placed and saw a hand's breadth of wonderful brightness. This one and that one would have laid hands on the hilt, only Volsung's voice bade them stand still. "It is meet," he said, "that our guest and our son-in-law, King Siggeir, should be the first to put hands on its hilt and try to draw the ...

— The Children of Odin - The Book of Northern Myths • Padraic Colum

... high position or high qualities, but from the consciousness of that sort of gentle passive strength, which knows that no external circumstance, or difficulty, or pressure will avail to make its owner step but a hair's breadth aside from the path which conscience has marked as ...

— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

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