Before revision: Definition The Dictionnaire de la langue française by Émile Littré defines epiphrase as a figure of speech " that one or more words are added to a phrase that seemed finished in order to develop more ideas".
After revision: Definition The Dictionnaire de la langue française by Émile Littré defines epiphrase as a figure of speech " in which one or more words are added to a phrase that seemed finished in order to develop more ideas".