dizain
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A poem of ten stanzas, each of ten lines.
Examples
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To this insinuation Balzac gave no credence; he naturally found it easy to believe in one more enthusiastic foreign admirer, and he was seriously troubled by the fact that the first dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," which certainly would not satisfy his correspondent's views on the lofty mission of womanhood, was likely to appear shortly.
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A fire broke out at the printing office in the Rue du Pot-de-Fer, and burnt the first hundred and sixty pages of the third dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," as well as five hundred volumes of the first and second dizain, which had cost him four francs each.
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So he made of it the thesis for a dizain of beautiful happenings that are almost flawless in their verbal beauty.
Note
The word 'dizain' comes from French, and is ultimately from 'dix' ('ten').
