bouts-rimésn.
/buːrɪˈmeɪ/ With plural agreement. Rhymed endings: see first quot.
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1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 60. ¶8 The Bouts Rimez were the Favourites of the French Nation for a whole Age together... They were a List of Words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another Hand, and given to a Poet, who was to make a Poem to the Rhymes in the same Order that they were placed upon the List.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI l. 89 Sonnets to herself, or 'Bouts rimés'.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi Weary of repeating such bouts rimés as the Rhine and the land of the vine.
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- absinthium
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