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feminine rhyme en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
    • She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless. 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557:

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feminine rhymes Number=Plur lexicographic
feminine rhyme GNSS canonical lexicographic