Appropriate use of DL and DD?

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Published on 2008-12-02T23:07:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 5:12 UTC
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I had some site templates designed for me recently. I got the final HTML code, which validates, but the structure of the document is laid out using DL-DD pairs:

<dl>
  <dd class="some-class">
    Some text.
  </dd>
</dl>

I'm not especially familiar with those tags as I've never used them much, but they don't seem intended for document structure. Am I right? Why would a designer do this?

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