Usually means: Seven-line stanza, ababbcc rhyme.
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  1. rhyme royal: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhyme royal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. rhyme royal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rhyme royal: Vocabulary.com
  5. rhyme royal: Wordnik
  6. rhyme royal: Wiktionary
  7. rhyme royal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. rhyme royal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Rhyme royal, rhyme royal: Dictionary.com
  10. Rhyme royal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. rhyme royal: Rhymezone
  12. rhyme royal: FreeDictionary.org
  13. rhyme royal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. rhyme royal: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. RHYME ROYAL: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhyme royal)

noun:  (uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).
noun:  (countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form.

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