son|net

son|net
son|net «SON iht», noun, verb, -et|ed, -et|ing or (especially British) -et|ted, -et|ting.
–n.
a poem having 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, and a formal arrangement of rhymes. Elizabethan and Italian sonnets differ in the arrangement of the rhymes.
–v.i.
to compose sonnets.
–v.t.
to celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets.
╂[< Middle French sonnet, or Italian sonetto < Old Provençal sonet (diminutive) < son sound < Latin sonus]

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