Usually means: Poetic debate between two parties.
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  1. tenson: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenson: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenson: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tenson: Wordnik
  5. tenson: Wiktionary
  6. tenson: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. tenson: Dictionary.com
  8. Tenson (brand), Tenson: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Tenson: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. TENSON: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Definitions from Wiktionary (tenson)

noun:  (poetry) A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.

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