noun
- A poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) A
form of French versification,
sometimes imitated in
English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of
eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a
refrain, and the whole poem with an
envoy.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary