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单词 priamel
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priameln.

Brit. /prᵻˈaml/, U.S. /prᵻˈæm(ə)l/
Inflections: Plural priameln, priamels.
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymons: German Priamel, preambel.
Etymology: < German Priamel type of short poem (from c1465 to the early 16th cent. in the title of such poems; subsequently from 1779 in literary criticism), literary device in classical poetry (1935 or earlier), variant of preambel type of short poem (c1460 in the title of such poems), apparently a specific use of preambel preamble (now Präambel ; < post-classical Latin praeambulum preamble n.). Compare French priamèle (1868 or earlier; < German).In plural form priameln after the German plural form.
Originally: a type of short poem cultivated in Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries, culminating in a witty or ingenious turn of thought. Later applied to similar literary forms; spec. (in ancient Greek poetry) a device in which a number of items or options, culminating in a preferred one, are listed for comparison.
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1889 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 360 Euling furnishes the text of a MS of the fifteenth century..containing epigrams, and emends his own edition of ‘Priameln’.
1938 PMLA 53 65 A Priamel is generally moralizing, didactic, humorous, and satirical... Rosenplüt was the best Priamel-poet.
1978 M. L. West Hesiod's Wks. & Days 269 The recommendation of holm-oak for the plough-tree is reinforced by a priamel.
1988 Literary Rev. Aug. 45/1 Race calls Keats' ‘on first looking into Chapman's Homer’ a priamel.
2001 Phoenix 55 293 He includes Thais in a kind of priamel of previous record-holders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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