/kuy az"meuhs/ , n. , pl. chiasmi /-muy/ . Rhet.
a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "He went to the country, to the town went she."
[ 1870-75; chiasmós, equiv. to chi CHI 1 + -asmos masc. n. suffix, akin to -asma; see CHIASMA ]