Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traditional Persian verse form consisting of a collection of quatrains, typically rhyming aaba.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Quatrians. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Dine on prime cuts of steak beneath the limbs of an ancient fig tree at this Jardins institution. rubaiyat.com.br
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I don't recall it ever having problems shipping and unlike Big Numbers it ended. zebrat yeah, like how frank miller made robin a female in the dark knight returns. and we all know how much that sucked. why would any single comic make you embarrassed to read comics as a whole? hyperbole, i suppose. rubaiyat
A Look at Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Film-Turned-Comic | /Film 2009
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I don't mind a little sexual tension between the two but I just hope they don't sex her up too much. rubaiyat
A Look at Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet Film-Turned-Comic | /Film 2009
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Posted Oct 24, 2008 10:14:20 PM | link rubaiyat says:
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If the latter theory holds good, what a pity it would seem that these rubaiyat were not originally written in Chinese, the infinite alphabet of which language would have furnished material for the present work and several revised editions also!
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917
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LVII - That Great Menagerie; another reference to his experience as a social lion is found here, as in the three rubaiyat following.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917
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One of them is curiously styled "Her, a Statue," and contains a passage that reminds us of a rubaiyat of Omar's,
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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RIA deserves to be a part of Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat:
RIA Novosti 2010
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One of the two is the (then) largest collection of rubaiyat known: 801 and a half quatrains (bound in together with the diwan of Naziri) ....
GotPoetry.com News 2009
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Famous for his rubaiyat (collection of quatrains) is the Persian poet Omar Khayyam.
LearnHub Activities 2008
steveinCA commented on the word rubaiyat
Note that "quatrains" is misspelled in the definition.
January 6, 2012