Elizabethan sonnet

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

First appeared around 1750, and is related to the French word “braguette” for the name of codpiece armor.

First appeared in 1610, based on the French word “baguette” for the long loaf of bread.

First appeared in 1555, and is related to the French word “raquette” for a netted bat.

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Words nearby Elizabethan sonnet

elixir, Eliz., Eliza, Elizabeth, Elizabethan, Elizabethan sonnet, Elizabeth City, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Elizabeth of Hungary, Elizabethton

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Example sentences from the Web for Elizabethan sonnet

Is it possible to follow up a school-shooting episode with lines from Sonnet 116?
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The new sequel, Shadow of Night, actually takes Diana back in time to Elizabethan England.
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Your character in Wit seeks strength in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, especially his Holy Sonnet 10, “Death Be Not Proud.”
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The new book celebrates the sonnet's uneven return to grace.
The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|June 8, 2010|DAILY BEAST

When the Queen of England began her reign in 1953, her countrymen declared a new Elizabethan Age.
Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|July 24, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The legend that may still be read upon the Corporation mace, of Elizabethan date, is earnest of this old-time amity.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
In the Elizabethan Age men had thrown caution to the winds and lived with their whole bodies, not just with their minds alone.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
It is in the Elizabethan style, with half-timber frame and sagging tile roof.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier

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