masculine rhyme


nounProsody.
  1. a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.

Origin of masculine rhyme

1
First recorded in 1575–85

Words Nearby masculine rhyme

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British Dictionary definitions for masculine rhyme

masculine rhyme

noun
  1. prosody a rhyme between stressed monosyllables or between the final stressed syllables of polysyllabic words: book, cook; collect, direct Compare feminine rhyme

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