Distich [noun]
Definition of Distich:
pair
Opposite/Antonyms of Distich:
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Sentence/Example of Distich:
A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.
Leo used occasionally to send him some dishes from his table; and he was expected to pay for each dish with a Latin distich.
That distich which Shakespeare puts in the mouth of his madman in K. Lear, act iii.
So ran an agonised distich I found written up on a rock somewhere.
The chief forms of verse used are the elegiac distich (most frequent), scazons, and hendecasyllabics.
Sometimes a thought, which might perhaps fill a distich, is expanded and attenuated till it grows weak and almost evanescent.
Here Selvaggi praised him in a distich, and Salsilli in a tetrastich: neither of them of much value.
When both itch, the above distich expresses the popular belief.
This distich is said by a boy who feels very lazy, yet wishes to exert himself.
This distich alludes to the quantity of old coins found near those places.