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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ancient prosody, noting a variety of iambic trimeter which has not only a spondee or trochee for an iambus in the sixth or last place, as in the choliamb, but a spondee in the fifth place also .
  • noun A verse or line having this peculiarity.

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