quatrain
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quat·rain
(kwŏt′rān′, kwŏ-trān′)n.
A stanza or poem of four lines.
[French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]
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quatrain
(ˈkwɒtreɪn)n
(Poetry) a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes
[C16: from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor]
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quat•rain
(ˈkwɒ treɪn)n.
a stanza or poem of four lines, usu. with alternate rhymes.
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quatrain
A group of four lines, usually rhymed.
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Noun | 1. | quatrain - a stanza of four lines elegiac stanza - a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme heroic stanza - a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
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quatrain
n → Vierzeiler m
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