Look up: Bouts-rimes

1. Bouts Rimes
   Bouts rimes are words or syllables given as the ends of the verses, the other parts of the lines to be supplied by the ingenuity of the poet. In the 17th century the composition of bouts rimes was a fashionable amusement.
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2. Bouts-rimés
   Game originating in France where players compete to write the best poem using a set of pre-selected rhymes. It was frequently played by Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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3. Bouts-rimés
   Bouts`-ri·més' noun plural [ French bout end + rimé rhymed.] Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
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4. Bouts-rimes
   • (n. pl.) Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.
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5. bouts-rimés
   (French: `rhymed ends`), rhymed words or syllables to which verses are written, best known from a literary game of making verses from a list of ...
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