Alexandrine
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- alexandrine
- alexandrine: [16] An alexandrine is a line of verse of 12 syllables, characteristic of the classic French drama of the 17th century. The term derives from the use of this metre in Alexandre, a 12th-or 13th-century Old French romance about Alexander the Great.
- Alexandrine
- in reference to a type of verse line, 1580s (adj.); 1660s (n.), said to be from Old French Roman d'Alexandre, name of a poem about Alexander the Great that was popular in the Middle Ages, which used a 12-syllable line of 6 feet (the French heroic verse); it was used in English to vary the heroic verse of 5 feet. The name also sometimes is said to be from Alexandre de Paris, 13c. French poet, who used such a line (and who also wrote one of the popular Alexander the Great poems).
Example
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- 2. Plato and his followers saw it as a link between god and man . This idea was widely used by the alexandrine christian teacher origen .
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- 4. He was a romantic , an idealist , and an anti-monarchist whose love for alexandrine , the woman he married in spite of napoleon 's objections , caused him to fall out of favor with his powerful brother .
- 5. Alexandrine parakeets , originally from asia , and blue-crowned conures , from venezuela , have also been observed nesting in eastern england .