Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
trimeter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Same as
trimeter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to a
trimeter or anything related to trimeters.
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Examples
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In the form of trimetrical double-lines, with a several rhyme for each couplet, it has become the
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In the elaborate ballets and revels in the "Grove of Daphne" the use of Greek scales, Greek progressions (such as descending parallel fourths long forbidden by the doctors of our era), a trimetrical grouping of measures (instead of our customary fourfold basis), and a suggestion of Hellenic instruments, -- all this lore has not robbed the scene in any sense of an irresistible brilliance and spontaneity.
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A member of this class may not be able to do the simplest sum in arithmetic without the assistance of his counting-machine, but he may be able to write an essay on the meanings of ideographs, reproduce a trimetrical classic, or quote the philosophic works of Confucius and the
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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In the form of trimetrical double-lines, with a several rhyme for each couplet, it has become the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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