pantoum
noun
pan·toum
pan‧ˈtüm
plural -s
: a series of quatrains rhyming abab in which the second rhyme of a quatrain recurs as the first in the succeeding quatrain, each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme (as bcbc, cdcd), and the initial rhyme of the series recurs as the second rhyme of the closing quatrain (xaxa)
Word History
Etymology
French, from Malay pantun
- strippedness
- stripper
- stripper bolt
- strippers
- strippest
- strippies
- stripping
- stripping (down)
- stripping away
- stripping comb
- stripping down
- stripping film
- stripping knife
- strippings
- strippit
- strips
- strips (down)
- strips away
- strips down
- stript
- stript away
- striptease
- stripteased
- stripteaser
- stripteasers