alexandrine

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle French alexandrin. So called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great (Roman d'Alexandre, c. 1177).

The Caliph Omer burnt the Alexandrine library. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
=alejandrino=, m., Alexandrine, a classic form of verse. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
Our Iambic in its sixth form, is commonly called the Alexandrine measure. — The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue, Percival Leigh

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