tornadan.
/tɔːˈnadə/ An envoy of three lines, in which the verse-endings of all the preceding stanzas recur. [Compare Littré, Tornade, se dit, dans les chansons provençales, de la ritournelle.]
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1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) I. vi. 173 The songs are usually in seven stanzas, followed by an envoy, which he calls a tornada.
1874 Breymann in Ess. Owens Coll. Manch. xi. 384 The Troubadours borrowed from the Saracens several of their poetical forms as, for instance, the Tornada.
1880 Hueffer Macmillan's Mag. No. 253. 49 There are..six lines to a stanza and six stanzas to a poem, not counting the tornada or envoi of three lines.
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