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poulter measure

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poulter's measure

  [pohl-terz]
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–noun Prosody.
a metrical pattern using couplets having the first line in iambic hexameter, or 12 syllables, and the second in iambic heptameter, or 14 syllables.
Origin:
1570–80; so called because poulters (see poulterer ) used to give extra eggs when counting by the dozen
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