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- noun Plural form of
clerihew .
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Examples
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There are blues poems and clerihews, and even the rare riddle poem or two.
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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These clerihews 'decline into defective structure and rhyme
West End Whingers 2010
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This book contains sixty-one clerihews of Auden's.
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I was writing a few clerihews -- those four-liners that start with a famous name and go on to say something insightful about the person named -- just at the time when da Vinci's Mona Lisa was being exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (on loan from the Louvre).
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