Brewer's: Triangular Part of Man

(The). The body. Spenser says, “The divine part of man is circular, but the mortal part is triangular.” (Faërie Queene, book ii. 9.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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