vers de société
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vers de société
literally: society verse
Example Sentences
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Then F. I. Scudamore, still remembered for his vers de société, was a passing contributor.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
No attempt is made to reach the sublime, but serious vers de société is often written and is the more effective because of its contrasted setting.
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Horatio Winslow
His style even, his swift and limpid prose—the prose which somehow corresponds to the best vers de société in its brilliancy and buoyancy—is the style of one who lives at the centre of things.
From Parisian Points of View by Edith V. B. Matthews
This, the most humorous example of vers de société in the English language, well illustrates the position of a parson in a family of distinction at that period.—W.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
Anapestic verse, two-stress, 28 f.; three-stress, 34-36; four-stress, 39 f.; five-stress, 42; six-stress, 43; seven-stress, 45; eight-stress, 48; in vers de société, 39.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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