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caesura

/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/

noun

Meaning

  • A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

  • (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

  • The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

  • A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.

Synonyms

virgule