Look up: tercet

1. Tercet
   Ter'cet noun [ French, from Italian terzetto , dim. of terzo , third, Latin tertius . See Tierce , and confer Terzetto .] 1. (Mus.) A triplet. Hiles. 2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/28
   
   
2. Tercet
   • (n.) A triplet. • (n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.
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3. tercet
   a unit or group of three lines of verse, usually containing rhyme, as in William Shakespeare`s `The Phoenix and the Turtle`: Death is now the ...
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4. tercet
   tercet A group of three lines of verse that rhyme with each other or with another group of three.
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5. tercet
   a rhyming triplet, found in sequences such as • aaa bbb (for example, Thomas Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain')
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6. Tercet
   A `tercet` is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a a a; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used s...
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