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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Tercet

Tēr'çet, n.

noun

n. (Mus.) A third. Crabb.

Tier'cet, n.

noun

(tĕr'set, or tēr'set) (Synop., § 130), n. [Fr. tercet, Sp. terceto, It. terzetto, from Lat. tertius, the third. Cf. TIERCE.] (Poetry.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.