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paracrostic en · NOUN

Etymology

From para- + acrostic.

Meanings

1. A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
   • the original Sibylline verses the head is but little distinct from the body , but always were paracrostics 1847, William Thomas Brande, A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art:

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