Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poem of ten stanzas, each of ten lines.
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Examples
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_And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; and chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly outre.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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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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However, whether she did not read the first dizain of the "Contes," which appeared in
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Mondes_ a scathing, anonymous criticism of the first dizain of the
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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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He thus lost 3,500 francs, and to add to the calamity, did not receive the sum of 6,000 francs which in the ordinary course of events would have been due to him at the end of the year, when but for this disaster he would have handed over the third dizain to Werdet and an associate.
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Montbrison afforded me the main matter of the sixth and seventh stories; and that, moreover, I once journeyed to Caer Idion and talked for some two hours with Richard Holland (whom I found a very old and garrulous and cheery person), and got of him the matter of the eighth tale in this dizain, together with much information as concerns the sixth and the seventh.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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Now when this terrible dizain was completed the lord of the seven madnesses laid fire to a wisp of straw, and he cast it to the winds, saying that thus should the anger of Miramon Lluagor pass over the land.
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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"That half-brother of mine, who is lord of the tenth kind of sleeping, would nicely round off this dizain," says Miramon, scratching his chin,
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
qms commented on the word dizain
As defined by the OED: A poem or stanza of ten lines.
October 15, 2017
qms commented on the word dizain
A dutiful rhymer must strive
To keep dying verse forms alive.
The limerick style
Succeeds in its trial
So long as its lines number five.
With negligible metrical strain
Are limericks linked in a chain;
The reader’s not troubled
By limericks doubled
To make a neglected dizain.
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
Scroll up to the CDC definition and weep. Only 9 stanzas to go, bucko.
October 15, 2017
qms commented on the word dizain
bilby has shrewdly discerned my reason for preferring the OED definition. In an emergency I invite the reader to repeat my contribution nine more times.
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
qms is cheating
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
There you go!
October 15, 2017
qms commented on the word dizain
My fragile contentment was fleeting,
Now marred by Tasmanian bleating.
How comes he so hostile
To OED gospel?
In Oz does good sense stand for cheating?
October 15, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
The OED is not holy writ
CDC on the other hand is lit!
There are no literary nooses
More fatal than excuses
So get writing you lazy piece of wit
October 16, 2017
qms commented on the word dizain
My couple has started this train
Then bilby and I swapped disdain.
A moiety’s done
When I finish this one.
Can we call it a demi-dizain?
October 16, 2017
bilby commented on the word dizain
Don't conclude anything too sinister
As burns go that's barely a blister
Though your dizain be be malnourished
Please don't be discouraged:
You're still my favourite limerickista
October 17, 2017
qms commented on the word dizain
In Mass. we will drop the last “R”
Though some find the custom bizarre,
But see bilby’s rhyme
Those same would call crime!
The Aussies are bolder by far!
October 17, 2017