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plural dactyls
A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented. quotations examples
—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], part I [Telemachia], page 4