Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stanza or poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
poem consisting of fourteen lines
Etymologies
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From the French quatorze meaning fourteen.
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Examples
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The French word 'quatorzain' was the term almost as frequently applied as 'sonnet' to the fourteen-line stanza in regular sonnet form, which alone falls within my survey.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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