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Definition of: trochee
(trō′kē) noun
In prosody, a foot comprising a long and short syllable (¯̆), or, in modern verse, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one. [<L trochaeus <Gk. trochaios (pous) a running (foot) <trechein run]
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