alexandrine
Meaning
A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
Translations
alexandrijn
alejandrino
alexandrino
Aleksandriner Zwölfsilbner
vers alexandrin alexandrisch
alexandrí
alessandrinoEtymology
From Middle French alexandrin. So called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great (Roman d'Alexandre, c. 1177).
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