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Definition of Quatrains
1. quatrain [n] - See also: quatrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quatrains
Literary usage of Quatrains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Books and Personalities by Henry Woodd Nevinson (1905)
"Otherwise, one would hardly have cared to notice more " quatrains from Omar Khayyam."
In truth, we have enough of them now, and want no more. ..."
2. Félire Húi Gormáin: The Martyrology of Gorman, Edited from a Manuscript in by Gorman (1895)
"Four quatrains ascribed to Moling and beginning: Daigh mac ... lQ Three quatrains
beginning: A Mulling na mill mo tuata | na mo mathra. l. 15. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"It is not even actually known how many of the quatrains are really Omar's. ...
A number of the quatrains revile the Sufis, yet after all Omar had been ..."
4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"TWO quatrains IVY Upon the walls the graceful Ivy climbs And wraps with green
the ancient ruin gray: Romance it is, and these her leafy rhymes Writ on the ..."