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The signature half-oval veneer patterns of a Broyhill dresser and the golden C. Jeré tree reaching over the bed’s simple headboard satisfy the master suite’s quota for midcentury-modern décor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2016

In the Bentley, Ive drew the sink in my notebook: a half-oval atop a column that, as it tapered down, angled away from the wall.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

The five women reclined on long, low rustic couches in the big, cleared half-oval that was the Playground for their children.

From Angel Island by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

At the other side, however, lay a little half-oval room, the first floor of that Victorian addition which he had marked from the outside.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes

The receptacles one of a half-oval figure, punctuated and affixed to the separating body.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.