rhombus

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Adnan was painting her mountain as late as last year, heavily abstracted into rhomboids in creamy pastel peaches, roses, and rusty golds.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

When the rhomboids are contracted, your scapula moves medially, which can pull the shoulder and upper limb posteriorly.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

I shall never forget Richard Serra's Weight and Measure – the two steel rhomboids, weighing a combined 80-odd tons – that generated such a gut-clenching tension in the otherwise empty galleries in 1992.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2013

Her “Umbra” series arranges multi-hued, wing-like rhomboids as if they’re fluttering on the white backdrop, and her “Starbursts” explode elongated triangles from a central point.

From Washington Post

The continuous forked-and-angled design, the combinations of hourglass figures, of spaced rhomboids or hexagons, even the simpler fishbone pattern—all have this total-field approach, with relative indifference to figure elements that got squeezed, stretched, or distorted.

From Mohave Pottery by Harner, Michaell J.