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cou·plet (kŭp'lĭt)
n.
  1. A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.
  2. Two similar things; a pair.

[French, from Old French, diminutive of couple, couple. See couple.]


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