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tercet (iou)



tercet noun. L16.
[French from Italian terzetto, from terzo (from Latin tertius third) + -etto -ET1.]
Prosody. A set or group of three lines rhyming together, or bound by double or triple rhyme with the adjacent triplet or triplets; spec. (a) each of the triplets of terza rima; (b) either of two triplets forming the last six lines of a sonnet.