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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spondee \Spon"dee\, n. [L. spondeus Gr ? (sc. ?), fr ? a
drink offering, libation, fr ? to pour out make a libation:
cf F. spond['e]e. So called because at libations slow,
solemn melodies were used chiefly in this meter.] (pros.)
A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word
l[=e]g[=e]s.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spondee
n : a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
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