Usage examples "octagonal":
- My guru summoned me to the octagonal balcony of the house. - "Autobiography of a YOGI", Paramhansa Yogananda.
- At the end of the garden was the summer- house that is still carefully treasured, being octagonal in shape, with carved pilasters, bell- shaped roof, and cupola surmounted by a winged Mercury that swings with the breeze, and was used as a weather- vane. - "Historic Homes", Mary H. Northend.
- The women were being helped up tall ladders and into their elephants' howdah, an octagonal box of heavy boards strengthened with iron plate. - "The Moghul", Thomas Hoover.
