aubade
a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.
Origin of aubade
1Words Nearby aubade
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How to use aubade in a sentence
After all, that “aubade Provenale” was just the melodious story of the woods in spring.
The Branding Iron | Katharine Newlin BurtHe remembered that Alain was supposed to sing an aubade, a dawn song, in the street below to warn and rouse him.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel | Robert SheaSweet as any aubade of the olden time, under olive and ilex, is it not?
A Speckled Bird | Augusta J. Evans Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for aubade
/ (French obad) /
a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
a romantic or idyllic prelude or overture
Origin of aubade
1- Compare serenade
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