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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A form of internal rhyme in which the word preceding the caesura rhymes with the final word in the line, as in.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably after Leo, or , Leonius, name of an unknown medieval poet.]

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