virelayn.

Brit.

/ˈvɪrᵻleɪ/, U.S.

/ˈvɪrəˌleɪ/

Forms: Middle English–1600s, 1800s virelai (Middle English virallay, 1600s virilai, 1800s virilay), Middle English–1500s vyrelay; Middle English verelai, 1500s–1600s, 1800s verilay, 1500s ver(re)lay.

Etymology: < Old French virelai (14th cent.), an alteration (probably after lai lay n.⁴) of vireli : see virly n.

Now Historical or archaic.

A song or short lyric piece, of a type originating in France in the 14th century, usually consisting of short lines arranged in stanzas with only two rhymes, the end-rhyme of one stanza being the chief one of the next. Chiefly current in the Chaucerian period, from c1575 to 1610, and in the 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > other lyrics of fixed form

virelayc1385

crowna1586

epode1598

ballata1762

pantun1783

villanelle1877

kyrielle1887

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Balade. 423 He made..manye an ympne for your halydayis That hightyn baladis, roundelys, & vyrelayes.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 133 Ek he can carolles make, Rondeal, balade and virelai.

14.. J. Lydgate To Soverain Lady 40 Thus many a roundel and many a virelay In fresshe Englisshe..I do recorde.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) Prol. 11 For in that tyme I made..Vyrelayes..in the mooste best wyse I coude.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. 30/1 Whiche boke was called the Melyader, conteyninge all the songes, baladdes, rundeaux, and vyrelayes, whiche the gentyll duke had made in his tyme.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 21 But if thou algate lust light virelayes, And looser songs of loue to vnderfong.

1593 M. Drayton Idea iii. sig. C4^v With daintie and delightsome straines of sweetest virelayes.

1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 360/1 Som to make verelaies, and laies And some to other diuerse plaies.

1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3^v Let thy Virilaies, Kill enuious cunning swaines..With enuy.

1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 396 And then the Band of Flutes began to play, To which a Lady sung a Virelay.

1795 H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 13 Feb. I received your letter and packet of lays and virelays.

1812 I. D'Israeli Calam. Auth. I. 204 Thus he lived like some old troubadour, by his rhymes, and his chaunts, and his virelays.

1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. vii. 17 O Dead, ye shall no longer..hold us backward by the garment thus, To stay and laud you in long virelays!

1880 F. Hueffer in Macmillan's Mag. No. 253. 51 Every one will admit that a halting rondel or virelai is simply an abomination.

in extended use.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G^v You chearfull chaunters of the flowring woods,..To mournfull note turn your light verilayes, Death be your song, and Winters hoary sprayes.1818 H. H. Milman Samor vii. 171 The merry birds..spring-tide virelays carolling.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	virelay
释义	virelayn. Brit. /ˈvɪrᵻleɪ/, U.S. /ˈvɪrəˌleɪ/ Forms: Middle English–1600s, 1800s virelai (Middle English virallay, 1600s virilai, 1800s virilay), Middle English–1500s vyrelay; Middle English verelai, 1500s–1600s, 1800s verilay, 1500s ver(re)lay. Etymology: < Old French virelai (14th cent.), an alteration (probably after lai lay n.⁴) of vireli : see virly n. Now Historical or archaic. A song or short lyric piece, of a type originating in France in the 14th century, usually consisting of short lines arranged in stanzas with only two rhymes, the end-rhyme of one stanza being the chief one of the next. Chiefly current in the Chaucerian period, from c1575 to 1610, and in the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > other lyrics of fixed form virelayc1385 crowna1586 epode1598 ballata1762 pantun1783 villanelle1877 kyrielle1887 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Balade. 423 He made..manye an ympne for your halydayis That hightyn baladis, roundelys, & vyrelayes. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 133 Ek he can carolles make, Rondeal, balade and virelai. 14.. J. Lydgate To Soverain Lady 40 Thus many a roundel and many a virelay In fresshe Englisshe..I do recorde. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) Prol. 11 For in that tyme I made..Vyrelayes..in the mooste best wyse I coude. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. 30/1 Whiche boke was called the Melyader, conteyninge all the songes, baladdes, rundeaux, and vyrelayes, whiche the gentyll duke had made in his tyme. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. 21 But if thou algate lust light virelayes, And looser songs of loue to vnderfong. 1593 M. Drayton Idea iii. sig. C4^v With daintie and delightsome straines of sweetest virelayes. 1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 360/1 Som to make verelaies, and laies And some to other diuerse plaies. 1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3^v Let thy Virilaies, Kill enuious cunning swaines..With enuy. 1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 396 And then the Band of Flutes began to play, To which a Lady sung a Virelay. 1795 H. Walpole Let. to Mrs. H. More 13 Feb. I received your letter and packet of lays and virelays. 1812 I. D'Israeli Calam. Auth. I. 204 Thus he lived like some old troubadour, by his rhymes, and his chaunts, and his virelays. 1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. vii. 17 O Dead, ye shall no longer..hold us backward by the garment thus, To stay and laud you in long virelays! 1880 F. Hueffer in Macmillan's Mag. No. 253. 51 Every one will admit that a halting rondel or virelai is simply an abomination. in extended use.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. G^v You chearfull chaunters of the flowring woods,..To mournfull note turn your light verilayes, Death be your song, and Winters hoary sprayes.1818 H. H. Milman Samor vii. 171 The merry birds..spring-tide virelays carolling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1385
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