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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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Etymology of 'Breadth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... were veritably going forward and a new "Let there be light" had been uttered. I had seen it for the first time the night before in the mellow light of a nearly full moon, but the sunlight really seemed to make, in respect to breadth, depth, ...

— Among the Forces • Henry White Warren

... that the king arrived at Sandwich, whitest the sunne shone verie bright and cleare, there appeared a most brightsome and unaccustomed clearnesse, not farre distant from the sunne, as it were to the length and breadth of a man's personage, having a red shining brightnesse withall, like to the rainbow, which strange sight when manie beheld, there were that prognosticated the king alreadie ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... its author among the very great poets of the world, if only because of this limitation. It lacks the breadth and depth, the everlasting interest. But it is a work of great beauty, of wonderful purity, a sweet story, told in lovely, limpid language, and will cause many eyes to turn awhile from other lands to the ...

— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer

... what John Stuart Mill calls the literature of slavery for woman, in length and breadth; and, that all women may understand the doctrine, the Shepherd now takes up his parable, and expounds the true position of the wife. We render his Scotch ...

— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... uncomplainingly when they took him to the Bertillon measuring department and stood him up against the wall, bare as a babe, arms extended, and noted down his dimensions one by one, every limb and feature being precisely described in length and breadth, every physical peculiarity recorded, down to the impression of his thumb lines and the precise location of a small mole on ...

— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett

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