society verse

American  

noun

1. light, graceful, entertaining poetry considered as appealing to polite society.

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Etymology

Origin of society verse

Translation of French vers de société

Example Sentences

During his student days, Holmes had gained considerable reputation as a writer of humorous and sentimental society verse, and during his whole life he wrote practically no other kind.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Sometimes he tried to write society verse, and his society verse must be considered a failure.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Hearn, Lafcadio

The comic weeklies returned his jokes and humorous verse, and the light society verse he wrote for the large magazines found no abiding-place. 

From Martin Eden by London, Jack

If you settle on Bona Parte, you'd have really three names; and as you don't write society verse for the comic papers, what's the use?

From Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by Bangs, John Kendrick

Austin Dobson, who is fond of eighteenth-century subjects, is at his best in graceful society verse.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post