haikai

[ hahy-kahy ]

/ ˈhaɪ kaɪ /

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noun, plural hai·kai for 2. Prosody.

an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.

a poem of this type.

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Origin of haikai

1880–85; <Japanese haikai (no renga) jesting (linked verse); earlier faikai<Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese páixié jest

Words nearby haikai

Haiduk, Haifa, Haig, Haight-Ashbury, haik, haikai, Haikou, haiku, haikwan tael, hail, Hail Columbia

How to use haikai in a sentence

The very word poetry (or haikai) came in his mouth to stand for morality.
The Japanese Spirit|Yoshisaburo Okakura
The most attenuated form of all is the hokku (or haikai) which consists of only three lines, namely, 17 syllables.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 2|Various
After a while the same practice was applied to comic poetry, thus producing the so-called haikai-no-renga, or comic linked verses.
The Japanese Spirit|Yoshisaburo Okakura