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adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
Word Usage
"His natural gait on shipboard was a kind of anapaestic dance -- two short steps and a long -- and though the crowd interrupted its cadence and coerced him to a quick bobbing motion, as of a bottle in a choppy sea, it hardly affected his pace."