rimester
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Often the inspired poet and the raw cockney rimester come inseparably coupled in the limit of half a dozen lines, as thus in the narrative of Glaucus:—
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
The name means 'Son of Flecknoe,' and Dryden represented Shadwell as having inherited the stupidity of an obscure Irish rimester named Flecknoe, recently deceased.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
The stanzas substituted by some unknown Colonial rimester run as follows: Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we seed the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
The song was popular; some rimester in the Tonah Basin camp had written the parody for the tormenting of the drill crews.
From Two Thousand Miles Below by Diffin, Charles Willard
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