bouts-rimés
Americanplural noun
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words or word endings forming a set of rhymes to be used in a given order in the writing of verses.
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verses using such a set of rhymes.
Etymology
Origin of bouts-rimés
1705–15; < French, equivalent to bouts ends ( see butt 2) + rimés rhymed ( see rhyme)
Example Sentences
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In the theatre, as in storytelling, he was not unready to work to bouts-rimés.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
The first occasion of these bouts-rimés made them in some manner excusable, as they were tasks which the French ladies used to impose on their lovers.
From Essays and Tales by Henry Morley
The first three of these were written to bouts-rimés.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This sonnet was one of my bouts-rimés performances.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
No. 4, “Sheer Waste,” was not a bouts-rimés performance.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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