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Tercet

British pronunciation/tˈɜːsɪt/
American pronunciation/tˈɜːsɪt/
Tercet
[NOUN]
1

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

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tercet definition and meaning
Examples
1A poem can have tercets, which is the three lines broken by stanzas, or four lines.
2The journey of the Divine Comedy is the journey within that in tercets, between images and essences so to speak.
3Remember my allusion in the last lecture to the Divine Comedy and the order of the Divine Comedy, and that central line in the very middle of the whole comedy alluding to Dante and the highly structured nature of that poem down to the tercets and to every line, with its rhyme, with its meter.
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