kyrielle
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French kyrielle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kyrielle (plural kyrielles)
- (now rare) A long rigmarole.
- (poetry) A form of French verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains, sometimes with a religious theme.
- 1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty[1]:
- "I said 'pantoum,' sir—besides which, gentlemen, we have the triolet, the kyrielle, the virelai, the vilanelle——"
Translations
[edit]A form of poetic verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kyrielle f (plural kyrielles)
- (dated) rigmarole
- (figurative) host, stream (de (“of”)); litany
- 1837, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume II, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- Elle vient me demander de m’ouvrir les chairs à coups de fouet, et elle m’appelle cœur de poule, bête féroce indomptée, avec une kyrielle d’autres injures que le diable ne supporterait pas.
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- 1907, Émile Verhaeren, “Printemps”, in Toute la Flandre:
- Mais aujourd’hui, la dune est claire et l’herbe y croît ; / Les humbles fleurs poussent par kyrielles ;
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- 2025 May 27, Laurent Blanchard, “Les agriculteurs obtiennent “une petite victoire””, in La Provence, →ISSN:
- Les “agris” espéraient une motion de rejet afin de supplanter cette kyrielle d'amendements.
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- (poetry) kyrielle
Further reading
[edit]- “kyrielle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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