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tiralee|ˈtɪrəliː|
Also 6 tireli, 7 tirlery.
[Echoic. Cf. OF. turelu a comic or burlesque refrain, and see tirra-lirra.]
a. The note of the lark; = tirra-lirra.
b. A representation of a bugle note or cadence.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 24 Even as the Larke..Mounteth her basinetted head on high,..Quav'ring full quaintlie forth her Tireli. c1600in E.E. Lyrics (1907) 255 Tirlery lorpin, the laverock sang. 1847M. Howitt Ballads 130 And the bugles blew with a ‘tira lee’! As they came by the way. |