English edit

Etymology edit

From French tercet. See tercet.

Noun edit

tiercet (plural tiercets)

  1. (poetry) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiercet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)