virelai
English
Alternative forms
- virelay
Etymology
From Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈvɪɹəleɪ/
Noun
virelai (plural virelais)
- (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, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viʁ.lɛ/
Audio (file)
Noun
virelai m (plural virelais)
- (poetry) virelai
Further reading
- “virelai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Noun
virelai m (plural virelais)
- virelai
Old French
Noun
virelai m (oblique plural virelais, nominative singular virelais, nominative plural virelai)
- virelai
Descendants
- → English: virelai
- French: virelai