quatrain
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French quatrain.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quatrain (plural quatrains)
- A poem in four lines.
- A stanza of four lines.
- Example:
- Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
- Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
- And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
- The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.
- 1894 December 26, The Sketch, London, page 396, column 1:
- The menu card was designed by Mr. Arthur Hacker, and further enriched by some charming verses in Omarian quatrains from Mr. Le Gallienne, who read them to a sympathetic audience.
Synonyms[edit]
- (four-line stanza): tetrastich
Translations[edit]
a stanza of four lines
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See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
quatrain m (plural quatrains)
- quatrain (stanza of four lines)
Further reading[edit]
- “quatrain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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