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  1. A form of poetic debate or contest among the medieval minstrels of Provence in France. See the quotation. The partimen … is also a poetic debate, but it differs from the tenson in so far that the range of debate is limited. In the first stanza one of the partners proposes two alternatives; the other partner chooses one of them and defends it, and the opposite side remains to be defended by the original propounder. Often in a final couplet a judge or arbiter is appointed to decide between the parties. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 875.

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  1. Provencal, from Middle Latin partimentum, division, partition, from L. partire, divide: see part, v.
 

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