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dizain

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di⋅zain

[di-zeyn; Fr. dee-zan]
–noun Prosody.
a French poem or stanza of ten lines, employing eight or ten syllables to the line and having a specific rhyming pattern, as ababbccdcd.

Origin:
1565–75; < F; OF dezen, dizain, tenth, tenth part, equiv. to dix ten (< L decem) + -ain (prob. < L -ānum -an, r. L distributive suffix -ēnum)
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