aubade
noun
a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.
aubades
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pluralof aubade.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“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
It is written in the key of the watch-songs of the German minnesingers and the aubades of Provençal troubadours.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
