omquæd

noun

A line that is repeated in every stanza of a poem or ballad.

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Meanings

nounomquæd (plural omquæds)

plural omquæds

  1. A line that is repeated in every stanza of a poem or ballad.

    Every Visa or ballad has its single or double omquæd or burden, which, like a running accompaniment in music, frequently falls in with the most happy effect[.]

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 132
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