Plural form of chorius (a variant of choreus); multiple instances of a short-long metrical foot pattern.
From Greek 'choreioi' or similar variants referring to the plural of choreus-type feet. This is an extremely rare variant plural used in specialized prosodic analysis.
This word is so obscure that it barely appears in modern English—most scholars just use the more common plural forms like 'choreus' or 'choriambi' instead.
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