distich
Americannoun
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a unit of two lines of verse, usually a self-contained statement; couplet.
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a rhyming couplet.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of distich
1545–55; < Latin distichon, noun use of neuter of Greek dístichos having two lines, equivalent to di- di- 1 + stíchos row
Example Sentences
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Percy discovered in the old metrical romance of “Sir Bevis of Southampton,” the very distich which Edgar had parodied.—Warton, iii.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
At his third examination, he wrote beneath the signature which he had affixed to his testimony the following distich: "Que toujours, dans mon cœur, J�sus soit le vainqueur!"
From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland
FitzGerald's verse was evidently also influenced by distich 1866 of the Mantik ut-tair.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
The rhyme was designed to honour the poet's father, who set the forest here; but accident must have stayed the stone-cutter's hand and left the distich incomplete.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden
Over the door of her sleeping-room she inscribed the distich which Virgil has put into the mouth of Dido.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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