Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a group of three lines; a three-line stanza.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[tri– + (di)stich.]
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Examples
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I should have preferred, indeed, the ante-penultimate tristich as the _finale_ of the poem.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various
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