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Webster 1913 Edition


Quatrain

Quat′rain

,
Noun.
[F., fr.
quatre
four, L.
quattuor
,
quatuor
. See
Four
.]
(Pros.)
A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Quatrain

QUAT'RAIN

,
Noun.
[L. quatror, four.]
A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

Definition 2024


quatrain

quatrain

English

Noun

quatrain (plural quatrains)

  1. a poem in four lines
  2. a stanza of four lines
    Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
    Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
    And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
    The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

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French

Etymology

From quatre (four) + -ain.

Noun

quatrain m (plural quatrains)

  1. quatrain (stanza of four lines)