romaunt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of romaunt
1520–30; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French romant romance 1
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With the early troubadours and minstrels, those nymphs formed the subject of many a lay, and the fate of their amours, of many a wild romaunt.
From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Patrick Buchan
This was a romaunt in four cantos upon the already familiar episode of Francesca, that "lily in the mouth of Tartarus."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
A stranger to courts, in the camp he was renowned for a chivalrous generosity and an extravagant valour, that emulated the ancient heroes of Spanish romaunt and song.
From Calderon the Courtier, a Tale by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
‘Moreover,’ observed Humfrey, ‘the ladies ought to see the romaunt of the Cat complete.’
From The Caged Lion by Charlotte Mary Yonge
The beginnings of the Spanish poetry are extremely simple: its two fundamental forms were the romaunt and the song, and in these original national melodies we everywhere fancy we hear the accompaniment of the guitar.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
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