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1925–30; named after E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), English writer, its inventor
1925–30; named after E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), English writer, its inventor
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clerihew
humorous verse form, 1928, from Eng. humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who described it in a book published 1906 under the name E. Clerihew.
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clerihew
a light verse quatrain in lines usually of varying length, rhyming aabb, and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme.
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