Crossword-Solution: ROUNDELAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Roundelay | n. | See Rondeau, and Rondel. |
| Roundelay | n. | A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. |
| Roundelay | n. | A dance in a circle. |
| Roundelay | n. | Anything having a round form; a roundel. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ROUNDELAY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Short, lively rural strain. | 1 answer |
| Song with a refrain | 1 answer |
| Song with repeated strain. | 1 answer |
| Song with repeated strains. | 1 answer |
| roundel | 2 answers |
| DANCE formation | 2 answers |
| "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," e.g. | 3 answers |
| SLOW dance | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ROUNDELAY (5)
The next that came forth, swore by blood and by nails, Merrily sing the roundelay; Hur’s a gentleman, God wot, and hur’s lineage was of Wales, And where was the widow might say him nay? Sir David ap Morgan ap Griffith ap Hugh Ap Tudor ap Rhice, quoth his roundelay She said that one widow for so many was too few, And she bade the Welshman wend his way.
But then next came a yeoman, a yeoman of Kent, Jollily singing his roundelay; He spoke to the widow of living and rent, And where was the widow could say him nay? Both.
The beetle guards our holy ground, He flies about the haunted place, And if mortal there be found, He hums in his ears and flaps his face; The leaf-harp sounds our roundelay, The owlet's eyes our lanterns be; Thus we sing, and dance and play, Round the wild witch-hazel tree.
Good morrow, good Norman.” And, humming his rustic roundelay, the yeoman went on his road, the sound of his rough voice gradually dying away as the distance betwixt them increased: “The monk must arise when the matins ring, The abbot may sleep to their chime; But the yeoman must start when the bugles sing ’Tis time, my hearts, ’tis time.
But if their talk were foul, Then would he whistle rapid as any lark, Or carol some old roundelay, and so loud That first they mocked, but, after, reverenced him.
Quotes with ROUNDELAY (2)
… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee…
And, indeed it is a very pleasant thing for to ride forth in the dawning of a Springtime day. For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay; then do the growing things of the earth smell the sweetest in the freshness of the early daytime — the fair flowers, the shrubs, and the blossoms upon the trees; then doth the dew bespangle all the sward…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1949–1991).