cheville

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The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

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  1. The peg to which a string of a violin, guitar, or other stringed instrument is attached.
  2. A meaningless or redundant syllable, word, or phrase used to complete a verse or round off a period. The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse. Contemporary Rev., April, 1885, p. 551.
  3. Cheviot finish a coarse, closely curled nap given to woolen cloth, as cheviot.

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  1. from French cheville = Provencal cavilla = Spanish cabilla = Portuguese cavilha, a peg, pin, bolt, = Italian caviglia (also caviglio), a peg, pin, from Latin clavicula, a small key, bar, bolt, later English clavicle, q. v.
 

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