RHYME ROYAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rhyme royal" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

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