virelai

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.

Pronunciation

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Noun

virelai (plural virelais)

  1. (historical, poetry) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
      Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].

French

Noun

virelai m (plural virelais)

  1. (poetry) virelai

Further reading

Middle French

Noun

virelai m (plural virelais)

  1. virelai

Old French

Noun

virelai oblique singular, m (oblique plural virelais, nominative singular virelais, nominative plural virelai)

  1. virelai

Descendants

  • → English: virelai
  • French: virelai
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