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‖ chanson|ʃɑ̃ːsɔ̃|
[Fr.:—L. cantiōn-em song, f. cant- ppl. stem of canĕre to sing.]
1. A song (French, or of France).
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 438 The first rowe of the Pons [edd. pious] Chanson will shew you more. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xlvii. 27 Each his Instrument, His holy Chanzons fitted to their String. 1781T. Warton Hist Eng. Poetry xliv. (1840) III. 129 These [Carols] were festal chansons. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vii. x. 445 Gentle poet, would that thou hadst some chanson or courtly compliment.
2. chanson de geste [see gest n.1], a mediæval French epic poem.
1868T. Wright Knt. de la Tour p. ix, The Chansons or Romans de Geste, which were so numerous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 1872A. Lang in Fraser's Mag. June 668/1 The form of the epic, whether we take the hexameter or the rougher laisse of the French chansons de geste, is full of conscious and admirable art. [1912W. P. Ker Med. Eng. Lit. iii. 69 The poems about Charlemagne and his peers, and others of the same sort, are sometimes called the old French epics; the French name for them is chansons de geste.] 1935Essays & Studies XX. 48 The survival of this most declamatory of metres [sc. the alexandrine] from the medieval Chanson de Geste of Alexander. |