chevilleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈviː/, /ʃəˈviːl/

名詞

cheville (複数形 chevilles)

1. (poetry) A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.
   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing

     The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

   • 1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, English as we speak it in Ireland, chapter 5

     The practice of using chevilles was very common in old Irish poetry, and a bad practice it was; for many a good poem is quite spoiled by the constant and wearisome recurrence of these chevilles.