Crossword-Solution: ESTAMPIE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The metrical forms were various, and were gradually reduced to rule; the _ballette_, of Provençal origin, was a more elaborate _rondet_, consisting of stanzas and refrain; the _estampie_ (_stampôn_, to beat the ground with the foot) was a dancing-song; the lyric _lai_, virtually identical with the _descort_, consisted of stanzas which varied in structure; the _motet_, a name originally applied to pieces of church music, was freer in versification, and occasionally dealt with popular themes.