couple-clause
Coupling of clauses; a name given by Puttenham to the rhetorical figure Polysyndeton.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. (Arb.) 186 Another maner of construction which they called (Polisindeton) we may call him the (couple clause) for that euery clause is knit and coupled together with a coniunctiue. |