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feminine rhymes

feminine rhymes is the plural of feminine rhyme.

Meaning of feminine rhyme

Noun

feminine rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural feminine rhymes)

  1. A disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
    • She even composes a poem in honour of her school — seven stanzas so limp with feminine rhymes as to be almost boneless.2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 557

Questions about feminine rhymes

What is feminine rhymes the plural of?
Feminine rhymes is the plural of feminine rhyme.

Words near feminine rhymes in the dictionary

  1. feminine hygiene
  2. feminine of center
  3. feminine product
  4. feminine products
  5. feminine rhyme
  6. feminine rhymes
  7. femininely
  8. feminineness
  9. femininenesses
  10. feminines
  11. femininise

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