| 单词 | court-metre |
| 释义 | > as lemmascourt-metre court-metre n. the dróttkvætt metre used in the old Icelandic drápa or heroic laudatory poem, which was recited before the king and his retinue (drótt). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > court-metre (Old Icelandic) dróttkvaett1779 court-metre1883 1883 G. Vigfusson & F. Y. Powell Corpus Poet. Boreale I. 432 The reason why the court-poets counted by the half-line..is manifest. The court-metre was their standard. 1896 Scot. Rev. XXVIII. 334 Drótt-kvætt..was thus the commonest metre for the drápa, or laudatory poem... The name of ‘court-metre’ is thus appropriate enough. < as lemmas |
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