CLERIHEW


Meaning of CLERIHEW in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkler-i-ˌhyü, ˈkle-ri- ]

noun

Etymology: Edmund Clerihew Bentley died 1956 English writer

Date: 1928

: a light verse quatrain rhyming aabb and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.