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Five Ply Design Modern Mobile — The Ovals: Outfit their space with this eco-friendly, mid-century mobile designed in Seattle from recycled wood, reclaimed veneer and VOC-free paint.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2019

In 1923 Rube Ellis was put in charge of its three brands�English Ovals, Oxford Blues and Cambridge�the first a blend and the others Turkish.

From Time Magazine Archive

He walked through Squares, Places, Ovals, Commons, through monotonous streets with unknown names where the dust of humanity settles inert and hopeless out of the stream of life. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

The Ancients called this Ornament Echinus, which signifies the sharp prickly shell of Chestnuts, because they found these Ovals represented a Chestnut half open, as it is when it’s ripe.

From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude

And it is manifest by the last method that this curve is the same that Mr. Des Cartes has given in his Geometry, and which he calls the first of his Ovals.

From Treatise on Light by Huygens, Christiaan