Definition of "decameron" []

• A celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by Boccaccio, an Italian. (noun)

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• "That was the case for the original Decameron (1350s), the Heptameron (1550s, dubbed the French decameron) and lastly, the Pentameron (1630s)."
• "The decameron containing an hundred pleasant nouels."
• "The prospect outside ought to be very dark, and rife with peril, to induce a man to resign himself deliberately to another decameron here. ["