vers d'occasionn.
/ˌvɛː dɒkazˈjɒ̃/ Light verse written for a special occasion (see occasional adj. 4c).
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1867 F. Locker Lyra Elegantiarum 11 Vers de société and vers d'occasion should be short, elegant, refined, and fanciful.
1933 Notes & Queries 26 Aug. 143/1 Many of his pieces are somewhat unskilful vers d'occasion.
1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 71 She was a great one for vers d'occasion. Upon my birthday..I received..a pale pink scalloped gilt-edged card inscribed..in a frame of hand-painted roses.
1960 20th Cent. Sept. 276 The vers d'occasion includes some limericks and clerihews.
1982 B. Askwith Piety & Wit vii. 112 The bons mots, the puns, the vers d'occasion, travel badly in time.
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