tercet
noun/ˈtɜːsɪt/
/ˈtɜːrsɪt/
(specialist)- a group of three lines of poetry that rhyme with each other or with the three lines before or after itWord Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo ‘third’, from Latin tertius.
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