melodye
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French melodie, from Latin melodia.
Noun[edit]
melodye (plural melodyes)
- music; song; melody
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
- And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.