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Noun- An epic poem.

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  • Arthurian or of the Carlovingian epopee were adored by this wayward but generous girl.
  • The poetry of enthusiasm, as the epopee and the ode, is that to which this style is best adapted.
  • It was a favorite thesis of Fielding, often repeated by his successors, that the novel is a sort of comic epopee.
  • Henriade will be an epic poem, according to the strictest statute laws of the epopee; but in my court of equity it is one as it is.
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