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Topic: LITERATURE

Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: acrostiche, from Greek akrostichis, from akr- ( ACRONYM) + stichos 'line'

acrostic

 noun
     
a‧cros‧tic [countable]
AL a poem or piece of writing in which the first or last letter of each line spells a word
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