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rhyme royal

a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter rhyming ababbcc, first used in English by Chaucer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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