pantoum
English
Etymology
From French pantoum, from Malay pantun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pænˈtuːm/
Noun
pantoum (plural pantoums)
- A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
Translations
French
Noun
pantoum m (plural pantoums)
Further reading
- “pantoum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.