Acrostic (noun)
ak-ros-tik
A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
Late 16th century: from French acrostiche, from Greek akrostikhis, from akron ‘end’ + stikhos ‘row, line of verse’.
Example sentences
“I created it acrostic style and framed it as a gift.”
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