bouts-rimés

[ boo-ree-meyz, French boo-ree-mey ]

plural noun

, Prosody.

1. words or word endings forming a set of rhymes to be used in a given order in the writing of verses.
2. verses using such a set of rhymes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bouts-rimés¹

1705–15; < French, equivalent to bouts ends ( butt ² ) + rimés rhymed ( rhyme )

Example Sentences

In the theatre, as in storytelling, he was not unready to work to bouts-rimés.

From Project Gutenberg

When I was tired of this specialized thinking, then the best relief, I found, was some quite trivial occupation—playing poker, yelling in the chorus of some interminable song one of the men would sing, or coining South African Limericks or playing burlesque bouts-rimés with Fred Maxim, who was then my second in command....

From Project Gutenberg

A collection of wretched bouts-rimés and burlesque doggrel, written at Florence in a house which Mme. d'Albany could not enter, and in the company of women whom Mme. d'Albany could not receive, and among which is a sonnet in which Alfieri explains his condescension in joining in these poetical exercises of the demi-monde by an allusion to Hercules and Omphale, shows that Alfieri frequented in Florence other society besides that which crowded round his lady in Casa Gianfigliazzi.

From Project Gutenberg

"They were blank sonnets," he replied; and explained the mystery by describing his Bouts-rimés.

From Project Gutenberg

I find the origin of Bouts-rimés, or "Rhyming Ends," in Goujet's Bib.

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