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‖ ˈenglyn
Sometimes in Welsh pl. englynion.
[Welsh.]
In Welsh poetry, a stanza (now always a quatrain) of a certain metrical structure.
1612Drayton Polyolbion iv. 59 In Englins some there were that on their subiect straine. Ibid. note p. 67 Englins are couplets interchanged of 16 and 14 feet called Paladiries and Pensels. 1866Cornh. Mag. Mar. 28 About 2000 englynion or epigrammatic stanzas. 1875Anderida I. xii. 236 Bards, your choicest englyns sing. |