feminine ending

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feminine ending

1. An extra unstressed syllable at the end of a line of verse.

2. Grammar A final syllable or termination that marks or forms words in the feminine gender.

feminine ending

(Literature / Poetry) Prosody an unstressed syllable at the end of a line of verse

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