QUATRAIN Definition & Meaning

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quatrain

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noun

a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

quatrain

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noun

a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of quatrain¹

1575–85; < French, equivalent to quatre four (< Latin quattuor ) + -ain < Latin -��Գܲ� -an

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of quatrain¹

C16: from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor

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That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran.

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Carla, it turns out, is more interested in “a muscular Argentine” than quatrains.

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On “Throw It Away,” she distills the relationship’s collapse into an incredible little quatrain: “We reached a ceiling/I had a feeling/From the beginning/Must be the ending.”

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In “America,” he added, “I had this wonderful quatrain that went: ‘I like to be in America/OK by me in America/Everything free in America/For a small fee in America.’

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A sassy flute tauntingly hovers over things, and Musgraves’s first verse begins with a vicious quatrain that captures the fracture in a nutshell:

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