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"roughly rectangular" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means something is approximately or almost rectangular in shape. This phrase can be used whenever you want to describe something that is not exactly rectangular, but close to it. Example: The living room was roughly rectangular, with large windows on one side and a fireplace on the opposite wall.
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Low-ceiling spaces of roughly rectangular shape alternate with longer balcony areas overlooking the central atrium.
Alabama forms a roughly rectangular shape on the map, elongated in a north-south direction.
But they are all (various shades of) black and (roughly) rectangular.
Gusset plates vary in size and shape but are usually several feet on a side, and roughly rectangular.
It is roughly rectangular, torn on all four sides, so that each line of text is incomplete.
A slightly more complex arrangement is the roughly rectangular "Earthscape Highlands II," in which the center is a free-form cut-out of a riverscape.
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Some were rectangular, some square.
"These did exist at the time and were roughly the same rectangular shape".
You peer into video imagery that is rear-projected onto a rectangular, roughly laptop-size screen flush with the surface of the gallery wall.
The ENID Trial is based in the West Kiang region of The Gambia, a rural subsistence farming community of savannah and farmland, a roughly 750 km rectangular tract of farmland bounded on 3 sides by the River Gambia and its tributaries.
Something roughly round or rectangular is fine.
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