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en·jamb·ment or en·jambe·ment   (ěn-jām'mənt, -jāmb')   
n.  The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause.

[French enjambement, from Old French enjamber, to straddle : en-, causative pref.; see en-1 + jambe, leg; see jamb.]
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