ANTISTROPHE

noun Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek antistrophē, from anti- + strophē strophe Date: circa 1550 1. the repetition of words in reversed order, the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, 2. a returning movement in Greek choral dance exactly answering to a previous strophe, the part of a choral song delivered during the ~, antistrophic adjective antistrophically adverb