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- noun Plural form of
caesura .
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Also: a great moment to point out alliteration, caesurae and the like.
Archive 2009-01-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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Also: a great moment to point out alliteration, caesurae and the like.
Beginnings Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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(It also lands him with a possibly life threatening case of the hiccups, which accounts for the caesurae in the following quote):
Andrew Gorin: Paper Tigers with Real Fangs: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City 2009
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"IN THE OCCUPIED CITY, was it when you fell in love with arbitrary CApitaL LettERS, it alics, caesurae | | and repetitions repetiTIOns?"
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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They are like caesurae in poetry, permitting a mental or physical breath before the speaker goes on.
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