cheville

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.
    — The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

词形变化

chevilles plural

词源

Borrowed from French cheville. Doublet of clavicle.
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