Word: amphibrach
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...ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been speaking PROSE...
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