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noun
A figure of speech by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin epanadiplōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐπαναδίπλωσις (epanadíplōsis, “doubling, folding”).
Across languages
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