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adjective
2.
(often lowercase) of or pertaining to such a verse or line.
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Alexandrine
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Origin:
1580–90; < Middle French alexandrin, after Alexandre, from the use of this meter in an Old French poem on Alexander the Great; see -ine1
1580–90; < Middle French alexandrin, after Alexandre, from the use of this meter in an Old French poem on Alexander the Great; see -ine1
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adjective
of or pertaining to Alexandria, Egypt.
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Alexandrine
verse line, 1580s, said to be from O.Fr. Roman d'Alexandre, a poem about Alexander the Great that was popular in the Middle Ages, which used a 12-syllable line of 6 feet (the Fr. heroic verse); it was used in Eng. to vary the heroic verse of 5 feet. The name also sometimes is said to be from Alexandre
EXPANDde Paris, medieval Fr. poet, who used such a line (and who also wrote one of the popular Alexander the Great poems).
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