Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An improper form of
quatrain .
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Examples
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All the rants at town hall meetings like 'we want our country back, Communist, socialist and the czars and the anger and the protests are all nothing other than what Nostradamus predicted in his prophecy in quartrain 243 which reads
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party.
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party.
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It is a great temptation to the indolence of hymn-writers, that the quartrain measures have been so often used by Dr. Watts, without rhyme in the first and third lines.
Sacred Poems and Hymns 1771-1854 1854
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Their projects for the revival of their navy seldom go farther than a transposal in the stripes of the flag, and their vengeance against regal anthropophagi, and proud islanders, is infallibly diverted by a denunciation of an aristocratic quartrain, or some new mode, whose general adoption renders it suspected as the badge of a party. ”
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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