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‖ pantun|pænˈtuːn|
Also pantoum.
[Malay pantun; in Fr. misspelt pantoum for pantoun (Devic in Littré Suppl.).]
A verse-form in Malay (see quot. 1883), also imitated in French and English. Also attrib.
1783W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 162 The essentials in the composition of the pantoon..are the rythmus and the figure, particularly the latter, which they consider as the life and spirit of the poetry. 1821J. Leyden tr. Malay Annals 83 They sing of it in Pantuns. Ibid. 259 There came a Pantun poet, who was famous for his skill in horsemanship. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 326 The pantuns are improvised poems, generally of four lines, in which the first and third and the second and fourth rhyme. The meaning intended to be conveyed is expressed in the second couplet, whereas the first contains a simile or distant allusion to the second, or often has, beyond the rhyme, no connexion with the second at all. 1887Sat. Rev. 3 Dec. 770 Among the verse⁓forms that are little used we must notice as new to us the droll and clever pantoum ‘En Route’. 1897Daily News 2 Aug. 4/6 Very few people know what a Pantoum is; it..is a Malay form of verse patented by Mr. Austin Dobson. 1964M. Taib bin Osman in Wang Gung-Wu Malaysia iii. xv. 211 The pantun can be considered as folk-ditty; it is used on almost all occasions in Malay life. 1970New Yorker 14 Nov. 58/1 She drafted three poems—another rondeau, a pantoum, and a cynghanedd. 1975‘G. Black’ Big Wind x. 183 She was singing a Malay pantun, a verse form tending to the obscene. |