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quatorzain|ˈkætəzeɪn|
Also 6 quaterzayn, 7 quatorzen, 9 quatuorzain. See also quatorziem.
[a. F. quatorzaine a set of fourteen (persons, days, etc.), f. quatorze: see next.]
A piece of verse consisting of fourteen lines; a sonnet. In mod. use spec. A poem of fourteen lines resembling a sonnet, but without strict observance of sonnet-rules.
1583G. Bucke Commend. Verses in T. Watson's Centurie of Loue (Arb.) 33 The Thuscan's poesie, Who skald [= scaled] the skies in lofty Quatorzain. 1591Nashe Pref. Sidney's Astr. & Stella, Put out your rush candles you poets and rimers and bequeath your quaterzayns to chandlers. 1605Chapman All Fooles ii. i. 174 Sonnets in Doozens or your Quatorzaines [printed -anies]. 1812Lofft (title) Laura: or, an Anthology of Sonnets (on the Petrarcan model), and Elegiac Quatuorzains. 1836H. F. Chorley Mrs. Hemans (1837) II. 276 This volume..contains also many beautiful sonnets, or more strictly speaking, quatuorzains. 1880Sat. Rev. 27 Mar. 421 The sonnet became..as incorrect as in..Cowper's exquisite quatorzain to Mrs. Unwin. |