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haikai
[ hahy-kahy ]
/ ˈhaɪ kaɪ /
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noun, plural hai·kai for 2. Prosody.
an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
a poem of this type.
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Origin of haikai
1880–85; <Japanese haikai (no renga) jesting (linked verse); earlier faikai<Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese páixié jest
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How to use haikai in a sentence
The very word poetry (or haikai) came in his mouth to stand for morality.
The Japanese Spirit|Yoshisaburo OkakuraThe most attenuated form of all is the hokku (or haikai) which consists of only three lines, namely, 17 syllables.
After a while the same practice was applied to comic poetry, thus producing the so-called haikai-no-renga, or comic linked verses.
The Japanese Spirit|Yoshisaburo Okakura