Definitions for triolet

triolet tri·o·let

Spelling: [tree-uh-ley, trahy-uh-lit]
IPA: /ˌtri əˈleɪ, ˈtraɪ ə lɪt/

Triolet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in triolet (eilortt).

Definitions for triolet

noun

  1. a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth.

Origin of triolet

1645-55; French: literally, little trio

Examples for triolet

The triolet seems simple enough, and, for that matter, a certain kind of triolet can be written by the ream.

The farce opens with a lamentable triolet, in which the two thieves bewail their unhappy state.

When varied the triolet may give exactly the right ring for some idea which refuses to fit itself into the conventional molds.

The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.

But it is a truth that you can no more put into a play than into a triolet.

Though intended for the delicately humorous the triolet is sober-going enough to carry a thread of sentiment.

Originally, the triolet was often used for serious sentiment.

This ingenious epistolary “novel” consists of the letters Shklovsky wrote triolet during his political exile in Berlin.

A triolet to a ton of coal would be a glorious thing now, wouldn't it?

Deuce take it, Easy is the triolet,If you really learn to make it!

Word Value for triolet
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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