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Quadrangles
Rectangular grassy or paved areas surrounded by buildings, generally of an academic or civic nature. Distinguished from “courtyards,” which generally fall within the bounds of a single building.
Quadriporticus
Enclosed Roman courtyards with porticoes on all four sides.
Quincunx
A regular arrangement of five trees or other vertical elements, four of which form the angles of a square or rectangle, while the fifth serves to mark its center. The term often denotes a regular arrangement of trees set in a pattern composed of multiple units of five. When the arrangement is thus used repetitively in the planting of a bosket, the resulting quincunx of trees appears as multiple rows set on a running diagonal when viewed at a 45-degree angle; read from a straight-on position, the rows assume a staggered pattern.
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