"rhyme royal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Poetry",
          "orig": "en:Poetry",
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        {
          "ref": "1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism",
          "text": "Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are \"An Excelente Balade of Charitie,\" written in the rhyme royal; and \"The Bristowe Tragedie,\" in the common ballad stanza.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "ballade royal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "rhythm royal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "word": "rime royal"
        }
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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        "media",
        "poetry",
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        {
          "ref": "1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126",
          "text": "Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A single stanza of this form."
      ],
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        "(countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form."
      ],
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  ],
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  ],
  "word": "rhyme royal"
}

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    "English lemmas",
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    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
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  "etymology_text": "This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rhymes royal",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "en:Poetry"
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        {
          "ref": "1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism",
          "text": "Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are \"An Excelente Balade of Charitie,\" written in the rhyme royal; and \"The Bristowe Tragedie,\" in the common ballad stanza.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)."
      ],
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      ],
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A single stanza of this form."
      ],
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        "(countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form."
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ballade royal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rhythm royal"
    },
    {
      "word": "rime royal"
    }
  ],
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}