Saturnian verse
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| (Pros.) | a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: - Thĕ quēen | wăs īn | thĕ kītch | ĕn ēatĭng | brēad ănd | hōnĕy. |
See also: Saturnian
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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