"quasi-rhyme" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From quasi- + rhyme.",
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        {
          "ref": "1904, W. K. Morton (publisher), Lincolnshire Notes and Queries - Volume 7, page 213",
          "text": "An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.",
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          "ref": "1967, Roman Jakobson (contributor), To Honor Roman Jakobson - Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 11 October 1966 · Issue 31, page 683",
          "text": "A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example.",
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          "ref": "2006, Seth Lerer, The Yale Companion to Chaucer, page 202",
          "text": "Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;",
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          "ref": "2016, Antonios Rengakos, Evina Sistakou, Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram, page 129",
          "text": "but they make significant use of rhyme, imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, quasi-rhyme between identical words, rhyme between the end of a line and the inside of a line, rhyme between stressed and unstressed syllables.",
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          "ref": "2024, Paul R. Nail, Ph.D., A Psychological Biography of Hiram \"Hank\" Williams - Much More to His Story, Volume II, page 481",
          "text": "Hall referred to these as false rhymes, but I prefer the label quasi-rhymes.",
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        "(uncommon) Somewhat of a rhyme."
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          "word": "quasirhyme"
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          "ref": "1904, W. K. Morton (publisher), Lincolnshire Notes and Queries - Volume 7, page 213",
          "text": "An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters.",
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          "ref": "1967, Roman Jakobson (contributor), To Honor Roman Jakobson - Essays on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, 11 October 1966 · Issue 31, page 683",
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