/di zayn"/ ; Fr. /dee zaonn"/ , n. Pros.
a French poem or stanza of ten lines, employing eight or ten syllables to the line and having a specific rhyming pattern, as ababbccdcd.
[ 1565-75; dezen, dizain, tenth, tenth part, equiv. to dix ten ( decem ) + -ain (prob. -anum -AN, r. L distributive suffix -enum ) ]