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Pindaʹric Verse

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Irregular verse; a poem of various metres, but of lofty style, in imitation of the odes of Pindar. Alexander’s Feast, by Dryden, is the best specimen in English.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Pimlico (London)
Pimlico
Pin (A)
Pin
Pin Money
Pinabello or Pinabel (in Orlando Furioso)
Pinchbeck
Pindar
Pindar and the Bees
Pindar of Wakefield (George-a-Green)
Pindaric Verse
Pinder
Pindorus (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Pine-bender (The)
Pink (A)
Pink of Perfection (The)
Piony or Peony
Piou-piou
Pious
Pip
Pipe