Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In prosody, a variety of iambic trimeter with a trochee as the sixth foot instead of the regular iambus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Pros.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetry A
limping iamb .
Etymologies
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Latin choliambus.
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