bouts-rimés

[boo-ree-meyz, boo-ree-mey]

plural noun

Prosody.

1. words or word endings forming a set of rhymes to be used in a given order in the writing of verses.

2. verses using such a set of rhymes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bouts-rimés¹

1705–15; < French, equivalent to bouts ends ( butt ² ) + rimés rhymed ( rhyme )

Example Sentences

In the theatre, as in storytelling, he was not unready to work to bouts-rimés.

From Project Gutenberg

When I was tired of this specialized thinking, then the best relief, I found, was some quite trivial occupation—playing poker, yelling in the chorus of some interminable song one of the men would sing, or coining South African Limericks or playing burlesque bouts-rimés with Fred Maxim, who was then my second in command....

From Project Gutenberg

A collection of wretched bouts-rimés and burlesque doggrel, written at Florence in a house which Mme. d'Albany could not enter, and in the company of women whom Mme. d'Albany could not receive, and among which is a sonnet in which Alfieri explains his condescension in joining in these poetical exercises of the demi-monde by an allusion to Hercules and Omphale, shows that Alfieri frequented in Florence other society besides that which crowded round his lady in Casa Gianfigliazzi.

From Project Gutenberg

I find the origin of Bouts-rimés, or "Rhyming Ends," in Goujet's Bib.

From Project Gutenberg

"They were blank sonnets," he replied; and explained the mystery by describing his Bouts-rimés.

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