Definition of alexandrine Alexandrine
/æˌlʌgzæˈndɹin/ - [atlugzandreen] - Al•ex•an•drine
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What does alexandrine mean?
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| alexandrine - (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet | ||
| line of poetry, line of verse a single line of words in a poem | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- alexandrine (a.)
Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. - alexandrine (n.)
A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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alexandrine
al-egz-an′drin, n. a rhyming verse of twelve syllables, six iambic feet, so-called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great. It is the ordinary verse of French tragedy. French Alexandrines are arranged in couplets, alternately acatalectic with masculine rhymes, and hypercatalectic with feminine rhymes
