Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - limerick
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Limerick
limerick
geographical name 1. county SW Ireland in Munster area 1037 square miles (2696 square kilometers), population 109,873 2. city & port, its capital, on the Shannon population 52,040 LIMERICK noun Etymology: Limerick, Ireland Date: 1896 a light or humorous verse form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three feet and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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n. a humorous or comic form of five-line stanza with a rhyme-scheme aabba. Etymology: said to be from the chorus 'will you come up to Limerick?' sung between improvised verses at a gathering: f. Limerick in Ireland ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. лимерик, шуточное стихотворение (из пяти строк, где две первых рифмуются с последней) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1896, perhaps from the county and city in Ireland, but if so the connection is obscure; or perhaps from Learic, from Edward Lear (1812-88) English humorist who popularized the form. Earliest examples are in French, which further complicates the quest for the origin. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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