A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in
English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of
eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the
whole poem with an envoy.
(a) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast. (b) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner. (c) The fo...
