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- noun Plural form of
tribrach .
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That accent modified English prosody nobody need deny; there is no doubt that the very great freedom of equivalence -- which makes it, for instance, at least theoretically possible to compose an English heroic line of five tribrachs -- and the immense predominance of common syllables in the language, are due in some degree to a continuance of accentual influence.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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