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trochee

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trochee /ˈtrəʊkiː/

▶noun Prosody a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk trokhaios (pous) ‘running (foot)’, from trekhein ‘to run’.

'trochee' also found in these Oxford entries:

dactylic hexameter - scazon

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