saturnian : Idioms & Phrases
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Saturnian verse
(Pros.) , a meter employed by early Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: Th&ecr; queen | w&acr;s &ismac;n | th&ecr; k&ismac;tch | &ecr;n eat&icr;ng | bread &acr;nd | h&omac;n&ecr;y.