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caesura

Best crossword clue

"Verse pause"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/Part of speech nounSorted aacersuStarts with CEnds with A1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

Word origin

Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).

Used in a sentence

  • Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
  • A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.

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