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caesura

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/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ English

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  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
  2. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
  3. The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
  4. A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.

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