Crossword-Solution: CLERIHEW
We have 8 clues for the answer “CLERIHEW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Form of light verse | 1 answer |
| Four-line biographical poem | 1 answer |
| Funny four-line poem | 1 answer |
| Pseudo-biographical verse, originated by Edmund Bentley. | 1 answer |
| Whimsical four-line biographical poem form | 1 answer |
| Type of light-verse quatrain | 1 answer |
| a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | 1 answer |
| Four-line verse | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CLERIHEW (5)
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY A NIGHTMARE To Edmund Clerihew Bentley A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather, Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together.
Clerihew and Josias Lambert for the improvements they had introduced into coffee-pulpers, which, by their exertions, had been brought to great perfection.
Clerihew describe the advantages for himself-- "When the coffee berry is picked from the tree it bears a closer resemblance to a ripe cherry, both in size and appearance; and several processes have to be gone through before the article known in commerce as coffee is produced.
Clerihew that it was possible, by means of fanners, working on the exhausting principle, so to withdraw air from an enclosed space as to establish a current of air through masses of coffee spread on perforated floors forming the top and bottom of that space.
The two outstanding "debaters" in G.K.'s life were Lucian Oldershaw who became his brother-in-law and will often reappear in these pages, and Edmund Clerihew Bentley, his friend of friends.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1956–2003).