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Entry: son·net
Pronunciation: 'sä-n&t
Function: noun
Etimology: Italian sonetto, from Old Provençal
sonet little song, from son sound, song, from Latin sonus sound
Date: 1557 : a fixed verse form of Italian
origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics
rhyming according to a prescribed scheme; also : a poem in this pattern
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