Crossword-Solution: TERCETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TERCETS | anagram | TSECRET |
We have 6 clues for the answer “TERCETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Italian sonnet fragments | 1 answer |
| Poets' three-line groups | 1 answer |
| Rhyming triplets | 1 answer |
| Three-line stanzas | 1 answer |
| Three-line poems | 2 answers |
| Triplets. | 11 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
EZCEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TERCETS (5)
The first eight lines in technical language are called the "octave," the last six lines are called the "sestet." The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets.
Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself.
The division of the sestet into two distinct tercets is very rarely maintained; and that of the octave into quatrains is frequently neglected with impunity.
The latter is the champion of the purity of womanhood, impugned by the former, who in fifty tercets exposes the wickedness of woman in the most infamous of her sex, from Lilith to Jezebel, from Semiramis to Medea.
Etym: [F.] Defn: A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).