VIRELAYS

Noun

virelays

plural of virelay

Anagrams

• liverays

Source: Wiktionary


VIRELAY

Vir"e*lay, n. Etym: [F. virelai; virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.]

Definition: An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes. Chaucer. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.

Note: "The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other." Nares.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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