Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient prosody: Consisting of three short times or syllables; constituting a tribrach.
- Pertaining to a tribrach or tribrachs; consisting of tribrachs.
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Sometimes, when I have written a piece of prose that I have been modest enough to consider absolutely free from fault, a dreadful thought comes over me that I may have been guilty of the immoral effeminacy of using trochaic and tribrachic movements, a crime for which a learned critic of the
Intentions Oscar Wilde 1877
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