n.
Pronunciation: ' tr ē - ə -l ə t, ' tr ī -
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, literally, clover leaf, clover, ultimately from Greek triphyllon, from tri- tri- + phyllon leaf ― more at BLADE
Date: 1651
: a poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh and the second line as the eighth with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB