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Topic: LITERATURE

Date: 1500-1600
Language: Italian
Origin: sonetto, from Old Provençal sonet 'little song', from son 'sound, song', from Latin sonus; SOUND1

sonnet

 noun
     
son‧net [countable]
AL a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
Shakespeare's sonnets
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