aubades
- plural of aubade.
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
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)
