aubade
Americannoun
noun
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a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
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a romantic or idyllic prelude or overture
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Etymology
Origin of aubade
1670–80; < French, Middle French, equivalent to aube (< Provençal alba song about the parting of two lovers at dawn < Vulgar Latin, noun use of feminine of Latin albus white, clear) + -ade -ade 1
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But this dalliance with aubade was short-lived, after which Tower and Weilerstein hit the ground running.
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
In May, he proposed to his longtime girlfriend and tour manager, Ally Dale, so he celebrates finding love during the tender aubade “In the Morning Light.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
One is a nocturne, the other, a kind of aubade, or alba.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2013
The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the masque went, Amphitryon had newly returned from warfare, and was singing under Alcmena's window in the terms of an aubade, a waking-song.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch
“In ten more years,” she writes, “we’ll know how to implant IQ, / insert whole languages. I’ll be a superpoet then, // microchipped to turbo-read neural odes, / history of sonnets and aubades brainlaced.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
There are elegies and aubades, fiddle tunes and field recordings.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
It’s surprising then to find so many aubades — morning poems — in “Playlist for the Apocalypse.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
A Rolling Stone article helped secure a book deal for “Eve’s Hollywood,” a collection of odes and aubades to Tinseltown that if published today might be categorized as autobiographical fiction.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2018
Thus we find ourselves in the presence of conditions not unlike those which produced the tomfooleries of the court of Louis XVI and the musettes, bergerettes and aubades of French song.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
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