set-square

Updated: May 17, 2025

It was a dull gray ground on which were drawn lines, shading off and blurring into each other, sometimes starting from the mist, and then sinking back into it again. Among all these lines there were stiff, crabbed, and cramped designs, as though they were drawn with a set-square patterns with sharp corners, like the elbow of a skinny woman.

Romain Rolland - Jean Christophe: in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House