Crossword-Solution: VIRELAY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Virelay | n. | An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. |
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| old French verse form | 2 answers |
| Old French poem | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with VIRELAY (5)
Fitz: Let the conqueror, flushed with glory, Bid his noisy clarions bray; Lovers tell their artless story In a whispered virelay.
SONNETS HÉLAS! TO drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which can winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom and austere control? Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
Then last of all haue ye a proportion to be vsed in the number of your staues, as to a caroll and a ballade, to a song, & a round, or virelay.
And then the band of flutes began to play, To which a lady sung a virelay: And still at every close she would repeat The burden of the song--"the daisy is so sweet."' The structure of the daisy has been noticed in a former paper, and its appearance needs no description.
Borrow has resuscitated a literary form which had been many years abandoned, and he has resuscitated it in no artificial manner--as a rhythmical form is rehabilitated, or as a dilettante re-establishes for a moment the vogue of the roundel or the virelay--but quite naturally as the inevitable setting for a picture which has to include the actors and the observations of the author's vagabond life.