aubade
Americannoun
plural
aubadesnoun
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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
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
Example Sentences
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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
It happened, indeed, to be the Pilgrim's March from Tannhäuser that she fixed upon for her aubade.
From A Fountain Sealed by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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