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   trope

   /trōp/

   noun

   • 1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression: "perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age"
   • ▪ a significant or recurrent theme; a motif: "she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope"

   verb

   • 1. create a trope.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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