aubade

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au·bade

A0514100 (ō-bäd′)n.1. A song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak.2. A poem or song of or about lovers separating at dawn.
[French, from Old French albade, from Old Provençal albada, from alba, dawn, aubade, from Latin, feminine of albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.]

aubade

(French obad) n1. (Poetry) a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn2. (Music, other) a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn3. (Classical Music) a romantic or idyllic prelude or overture[C19: from French, from Old Provençal aubada (unattested), from auba dawn, ultimately from Latin albus white]

au•bade

(oʊˈbɑd)

n. music suitable to greeting the dawn or the morning. [1670–80; < French, Middle French]

aubade

A poem that greets or evokes the dawn.
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