Definition of "vers" []

• Versed sine (abbreviation)

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• "These ‘Metres by E.’ composed a collection of soft and marvellously musical rhymes, of a nature known as the vers de societe."
• "The gayest of the group is Sir John Suckling, the writer of what should be called vers de société, a more careless but more fanciful Prior."
• "These 'Metres by E.' composed a collection of soft and marvellously musical rhymes, of a nature known as the vers de societe."