rectilineal

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His city was laid out and built by Italian and French architects, a city too mannered and rectilineal for Russia, a city that announced to Europe that Russia had finally emerged into resplendent modernity.

From Newsweek

The ancients were aware of the rectilineal propagation of light.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by Tyndall, John

I hate white rectilineal lines on grass almost more than I hate underdone mutton or "The Lost Chord".

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry

I do not know if this town is really obedient to Heaven, but it is obedient to the laws of rectilineal geometry.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Verne, Jules

I began to see ways by which I might make the garden a little less rectilineal.

From The New Gulliver and Other Stories by Pain, Barry