Usually means: Traditional opening stanza of renga.
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  1. hokku: Merriam-Webster
  2. hokku: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hokku: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hokku: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hokku: Wiktionary
  6. hokku: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. hokku: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hokku: Dictionary.com
  9. Hokku: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. hokku: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. HOKKU: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hokku)

▸ noun:  (poetry) Synonym of haiku (“type of Japanese poem”)

Similar:
haikuist, haikai, haibun, hoquet, hoick, hochiku, hikuli, kanhu, holopoem, houka, more...

Opposite:
tanka, haiku, renku

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Similar:
haikuist, haikai, haibun, hoquet, hoick, hochiku, hikuli, kanhu, holopoem, houka, more...

Opposite:
tanka, haiku, renku



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