caesura
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Is caesura a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.Classical
2. (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.Synonyms: virgule
3. (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.Examples: "Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets."; "A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary