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Refrain
A
refrain
(from
Vulgar Latin
refringere
, "to repeat", and later from
Old French
refraindre
) is the
line
or lines that are repeated in
music
or in
verse
; the "
chorus
" of a
song
.
Poetic
fixed forms that feature refrains include the
villanelle
, the
virelay
, and the
sestina
.
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