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ditrochee

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di⋅tro⋅chee

  [dahy-troh-kee]
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–noun Prosody.
a form of poetic meter in which two trochees constitute one metrical unit.
Origin:
1700–10; < L ditrochaeus < Gk ditróchaios, equiv. to di- di- 1 + trochaîos trochee
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