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A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy…

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  1. n. A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
  2. n. a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
  3. A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
  4. A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English,in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight orten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the wholepoem with an envoy.
  5. n. a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy