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quatrain|ˈkwɒtreɪn|
Also 6 quadrain, -rein(e, -reyne, 7 -ren, -rin, -ran.
[a. F. quatrain, † quadrain (Cotgr.), f. quatre four.]
1. A stanza of four lines, usually with alternate rimes; four lines of verse.
α1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 13 Ane qvadrain of Alexandrin verse. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. ii. (Arb.) 81 It is not a huitane or a staffe of eight, but two quadreins. 1611Florio, Quartetto,..a quadren of a Sonnet, or staffe of foure verses. 1651Delaune (title) A Legacie to his Sonnes. Digested into Quadrins.
β1666Dryden Pref. Ann. Mirab. Wks. (Globe) 38, I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme. 1683Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 478 A Quatrain recited out of Nostredamus. 1823Roscoe tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. iv. 102 The beautiful stanza of ten lines, in one quatrain and two tercets. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 7 There are many terse and happy couplets and quatrains in the Wanderer.
b. A set of four persons. nonce-use.
1862S. Lucas Secularia 289 There were four English men of letters..of this stately quatrain Swift and Dryden are the only two he has encountered in his history.
2. = quartern 5. rare—1.
1819Southey Lett. (1856) III. 120 Did I send you the opening of ‘Oliver Newman’, in a small square size..or in half quatrain form? |