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Female rhyme

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feminine rhyme

–noun Prosody.
a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme), as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme), as in fortunate, importunate.
Also called female rhyme.


Origin:
1865–70
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