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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
caesura /sɪˈzjʊərə/

▶noun (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.

■ (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.

– derivatives
caesural adjective.

– origin C16: from L., from caes-, caedere ‘cut, hew’.

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