Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantun
Literary usage of Pantun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"pantun. This word is Malay, and may be translated epigram. It is a quatrain
stanza, in which the alternate lines rhyme, the two first containing a ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"pantun (PANTOUM), a form of verse of Malay origin. An imitation of the form has
been adopted in French and also in English verse, where it is known as ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Often too, the pantun is used in love-making, but they ut then usually composed
for the ... When this game is played by skilled ve the pantun last quoted, ..."
4. Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits by Thomas John Newbold (1839)
"The ingenious Dr. Leyden observes that the pantun " affects a kind of oracular
brevity, which is very difficult to becom- ..."
5. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary (romanized) by Richard James Wilkinson (1908)
"... pantun, a quatrain, the first line of which rhymes with the third, and the second
... pantun, to extemporise a quatrain ; sa-pantun, like, similar to; ..."
6. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1823)
"The pantun is frequently framed inte a kind of riddle, whose meaning it requires
some ... Tins is particularly the case with the pantun, whose chief merit ..."
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