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renga

ren·ga [ réng gə ] (plural ren·ga or ren·gas)


noun 
Definition:
 
Japanese poem with two authors: a Japanese five-line poem tanka, or a sequence of such poems, in which the first three lines are written by one person and the fourth and fifth lines by another

[Late 19th century. < Japanese, "linking poetry"]
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