dizainn.
/dɪˈzeɪn/ Obsolete.
A poem or stanza of ten lines. The meaning in the first quot. is doubtful.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > ten-lined stanza
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a1400–50 Alexander 4307 In all oure diȝans on daies þat duke we comend.]
1575 Gascoigne in Haslewood Eng. Poets & Poesy (1815) II. 7 There are Dizaynes..which are of ten lines.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. sig. Hh8v Lamon..began this Dizaine, answered in that kinde of verse, which is called the Crowne.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 501 [Title of poem] Dixain.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dizain, the number of ten, the tenth: Also a ditty of ten Stanzaes, or Stanza of ten verses.
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