quatrain

[ kwo-treyn ]
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noun
  1. a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

Origin of quatrain

1
1575–85; <French, equivalent to quatrefour (<Latin quattuor) + -ain<Latin -ānus-an

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How to use quatrain in a sentence

  • The parodist who wrote the following newspaper quatrain was no enemy of the automobile in spite of his cynicism.

    The Automobilist Abroad | M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

British Dictionary definitions for quatrain

quatrain

/ (ˈkwɒtreɪn) /


noun
  1. a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes

Origin of quatrain

1
C16: from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor

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