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单词 quatorzain
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quatorzainn.

Brit. /ˈkatəzeɪn/, U.S. /kəˈtɔrˌzeɪn/, /ˈkædərˌzeɪn/, /kəˈtɔrz(ə)n/
Forms: 1500s quaterzayn, 1500s–1600s quatorzaine, 1500s–1600s 1800s– quatorzain, 1600s quaterzain, 1600s quatorzen, 1800s quatuorzain.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French quatorzaine.
Etymology: < Middle French, French quatorzaine set of fourteen, especially with reference to days (13th cent. in Old French as quatorzieine ; also in Middle French in sense ‘the number fourteen’) < quatorze quatorze n. + -aine , suffix forming nouns from numerals (probably < classical Latin -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives: see nonagenarian n. and adj.). Compare Old Occitan catorzena period of fourteen days, fortnight (1463). Compare quatrain n., quintain n.2Not found in dictionaries of French denoting a piece of verse.
A piece of verse consisting of fourteen lines. In early use often applied to sonnets, but now usually any poem of fourteen lines which does not conform to strict sonnet structure.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > sonnet
sonnet?1555
quatorzain1582
quatorzeim1724
1582 G. Bucke in T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue sig. ❧3 The Thuscan's poesie, Who skald the skies in lofty Quatorzain.
1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. Put out your rush candles you poets and rimers and bequeath your quaterzayns to chandlers.
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i. 174 Sonnets in Doozens or your Quatorzaines [printed -anies].
1800 Phillip's Theatrum Poetarum 209 A quatorzain of the author's thus begins.
1836 H. F. Chorley Mem. Mrs. Hemans (1837) II. 276 This volume..contains also many beautiful sonnets, or more strictly speaking, quatuorzains.
1880 Sat. Rev. 27 Mar. 421 The sonnet became..as incorrect as in..Cowper's exquisite quatorzain to Mrs. Unwin.
1933 L. E. Pearson Elizabethan Love Convent. 337 In The Paradyse of Daynte Devises of 1576 were only three quatorzains, and in only one of these was any attention paid to metrical rules.
1996 R. Pearson Unfolding Mallarmé ii. i. 61 The poem is a quatorzain made up of seven couplets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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