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Society is ranked by the number and regularity of its members' sides, from formidable isosceles-triangle policemen with sharp apexes, through an equilaterally -triangular bourgeoisie and square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy and circular priesthood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fires from burning leaves sent up sluggish pillars of smoke, that spread out equilaterally above the trees in the windless air.

From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)

Friction-rollers are a late improvement in the sheaves of blocks, &c., by which the pin is relieved of friction by three rollers in the coak, placed equilaterally.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir