Bouts-rimes: Definition and part of speech

Bouts-rimes

  1. n. pl. Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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