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Plaintive verse
Answer for the clue "Plaintive verse ", 7 letters:
elegiac
Alternative clues for the word elegiac
Word definitions for elegiac in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death. ▪ Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks ...
Usage examples of elegiac.
Three celebrated Elegiac poets--Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid--also belong to the Augustan age.
Strachan, Kincardineshire, where a tombstone, inscribed with some elegiac verses, has been erected to his memory.