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Al⋅ex⋅an⋅drine

  [al-ig-zan-drin, -dreen, -zahn-] Prosody
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–noun
1. (often lowercase) a verse or line of poetry of twelve syllables.
–adjective
2. (often lowercase) of or pertaining to such a verse or line.
Origin:
1580–90; < MF alexandrin, after Alexandre, from the use of this meter in an Old French poem on Alexander the Great; see -ine 1
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Al⋅ex⋅an⋅drine

  [al-ig-zan-drin, -dreen, -zahn-]
–adjective
of or pertaining to Alexandria, Egypt.
Origin:
1490–1500; Alexandr(ia) + -ine 1
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al·ex·an·drine also Al·ex·an·drine   (āl'ĭg-zān'drĭn)   
n.  

  1. A line of English verse composed in iambic hexameter, usually with a caesura after the third foot.

  2. A line of French verse consisting of 12 syllables with a caesura usually falling after the sixth syllable.

adj.  Characterized by or composed in either of these meters.

[French alexandrin, from Old French, from Alexandre, title of a romance about Alexander the Great that was written in this meter.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Alexandrine 
verse line, 1589, is 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 Paris, medieval Fr. poet, who used such a line (and who also wrote one of the popular Alexander the Great poems).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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