virelai
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.
Pronunciation
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:
- Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].
French
Pronunciation
Noun
virelai m (plural virelais)
Further reading
- “virelai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Middle French
Noun
virelai m (plural virelais)
Old French
Noun
virelai oblique singular, m (oblique plural virelais, nominative singular virelais, nominative plural virelai)