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quatrain
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quat·rain  (kwtrn, kw-trn)
n.
A stanza or poem of four lines.

[French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

quatrain [ˈkwɒtreɪn]
n
(Literature / Poetry) a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes
[from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.quatrain - a stanza of four lines
elegiac stanza - a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme
heroic stanza - a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab
stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Translations
quatrain [ˈkwɒtreɪn] Ncuarteto m, estrofa f de cuatro versos
quatrain
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