Definition of "epopee" [ep•o•pee]

• Epic poetry, especially as a literary genre. (noun)
• An epic poem. (noun)

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• "'epopee'; but in my court of equity it is one as it is."
• "The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted."
• "You are so severe a classic that I question whether you will allow me to call his Henriade an epic poem, for want of the proper number of gods, devils, witches and other absurdities, requisite for the machinery; which machinery is, it seems, necessary to constitute the epopee."