pantoum
English edit
Etymology edit
From French pantoum, from Malay pantun.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pantoum (plural pantoums)
- A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
Translations edit
A poem similar to a villanelle
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French edit
Noun edit
pantoum m (plural pantoums)
Further reading edit
- “pantoum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.