laisses

It consists of 4002 verses, written in langue d'oil, grouped in stanzas or "laisses" of irregular length, in the heroic pentameter, having the same assonant rhyme, and each ending with "aoi," a word no one has succeeded in translating satisfactorily.

The Book of the Epic 1894

"laisses," or stanzas, of irregular length, and contains about three thousand seven hundred and eight lines.

National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

* Incredibly, a man and his daughter have seen the dogs sans laisses*:

Braise The Dog 2009

* Incredibly, a man and his daughter have seen the dogs sans laisses*:

chien perdu - French Word-A-Day 2009

* Incredibly, a man and his daughter have seen the dogs sans laisses*: Two long-haired dogs?

Braise The Dog 2009

* Incredibly, a man and his daughter have seen the dogs sans laisses*: Two long-haired dogs?

chien perdu - French Word-A-Day 2009

You see - what we have is a very laisses faire ('scuse spelling) economy which fails to give us any cogency and a political class that rides the wave as precariously as a body-boarder on a surf-board (heads-up Mutley).

Poltical Language ( Ask the Focus Group ) Newmania 2007

The chances are that it was written at first in regularly framed assonance verses of fourteen to sixteen syllables — each breaking normally into half-lines of seven to eight syllables, such as now form the usual romance or ballad line — and that these verses constituted stanzas or laisses of irregular length, such as we find in the Old French

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Comparatively short, these chansons de geste are written in lines of six syllables which are made into couplets, or laisses, with assonances, or imperfect rhymes (such, as e.g., perde and superbe).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Philippe II et Granvelle (Brussels, 1842); GACHARD, Inventaire des papiers laisses par le cardinal de Granvelle a Madrid; IDEM,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913