duann.
/ˈduːən/ A poem or song; a canto of an epic or long poem.
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1763 J. Macpherson Temora 179 (heading) Cath-loda; a poem. Duan First [note 181]. The bards distinguished those compositions, in which the narration is often interrupted, by episodes and apostrophes, by the name of Duän.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 103 (heading) Duan First.
1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 281 His Diarmod and his Guare may stalk on the stage, or declaim in duans.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cxvii. 129 Till what is call'd in Ossian the fifth Duan.
1893 H. Walker 3 Cent. Sc. Lit. II. 124 One epic poem of six duans or cantos, and another of eight.
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