enjambement
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French enjambement.
Noun edit
enjambement (countable and uncountable, plural enjambements)
- Alternative spelling of enjambment.
French edit
Etymology edit
From enjamber (“to stride; to straddle”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
enjambement m (plural enjambements)
- (poetry) enjambment
- (biology) crossing-over
Further reading edit
- “enjambement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.