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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Italian
Origin: 'place to stay, room, stanza', from Vulgar Latin stantia; STANCE

stanza

 noun
     
Related topics: Literature
stan‧za [countable]
AL a group of lines in a repeated pattern forming part of a poem [= verse]
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