Crossword-Solution: ALEXANDRINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alexandrine | a. | Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. |
| Alexandrine | n. | A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ALEXANDRINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRENCH heroic verse | 1 answer |
| Twelve-syllable line of verse | 1 answer |
| line of verse having six iambic feet, usually with a caesura after the third foot | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ALEXANDRINE (5)
This collection, running probably to some 200 Fables, after being interpolated and edited by the Alexandrine grammarians, was turned into neat Latin iambics by Phædrus, a Greek freedman of Augustus in the early years of the Christian era.
Its roof was all done with gold and blue from over sea, and its pavement wrought delicately in Alexandrine work.
There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared his friend’s passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine.
Thus they too had their share in that downward career of pedantry which we have seen characterise the whole past Alexandrine age.
For he it was who first used (or first conspicuously used) the alexandrine that is organic, integral, and itself a separate unit of metre.
Quotes with ALEXANDRINE (1)
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).