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ALEXANDRINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Alexandrine" is a kind of...):
line of poetry; line of verse (a single line of words in a poem)
Domain category:
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)