Definition of "elongations" [elongations]

• Plural form of elongation. (noun)

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• "Victoria Legrand's careful elongations lured the audience towards her, a gradual seduction, her head bowed."
• "Back in New York during World War I and inspired in part by her recently developed hatred of Germany, in her late forties she changed her conservative “European” style to a neo-naive “American” style with strong Fauve colors and mannerist elongations, through which she depicted New York life and culture in a lightly satirical manner."
• "It is possible to classify the various ways that reality is distorted in this kind of work: the mixing of forms, changes of scale, elongations, compressions and reversals, a distorted reflection which shows the world in a different light, a different perspective, the world re-imagined in a dream, subjectively influenced by the dreamer..."