alexandrine: [16] An alexandrine is a line of verse of 12 syllables, characteristic of the classic French drama of the 17th century. The term derives from the use of this metre in Alexandre, a 12th-or 13th-century Old French romance about Alexander the Great.
Alexandrine
in reference to a type of verse line, 1580s (adj.); 1660s (n.), said to be from Old French Roman d'Alexandre, name of a poem about Alexander the Great that was popular in the Middle Ages, which used a 12-syllable line of 6 feet (the French heroic verse); it was used in English to vary the heroic verse of 5 feet. The name also sometimes is said to be from Alexandre de Paris, 13c. French poet, who used such a line (and who also wrote one of the popular Alexander the Great poems).
双语例句
1. The woman says: " If I promise you, alexandrine. "
女子说: “ 我要是答应你, 同上. ”
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2. Method of draw money treatment is the 74 th bit more Alexandrine.
支取待遇办法同上第七十四点.
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3. Make law and Alexandrine.
制法和用法同上.
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4. Be unable to bear doleful wife, in the unit Alexandrine also department produced an impact.
耐不住寂寞的妻子, 在单位也同上司发生了关系.
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5. The reporter is below from Alexandrine an a few products of exhibition that scan.