PETRARCHAN


Meaning of PETRARCHAN in English

adj. denoting a sonnet of the kind used by the Italian poet Petrarch (d. 1374), with an octave rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet usu. rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde.

Concise Oxford English dictionary.      Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка.