romaunt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of romaunt
1520–30; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French romant romance 1
Example Sentences
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An Italian story, Il Figliuolo di germani, the chronicle of St. Albinus, and the Servian romaunt of the Holy Foundling Simeon embody similar circumstances.
From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague
Was it to have been a second romaunt of ‘King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid’?”
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
Girls whose accomplishments were limited to the singing of a lai or the longer romaunt and who perhaps could also strum a harp, were less fastidious than they have since become.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
Song and romaunt were sung until the shadows began to turn towards the east and the hues of approaching evening to suffuse the shades of the adjacent wilderness.
From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)
Full soon he tunes each quivering chord, And, with preamble wildly sweet He doth the wondering listeners greet;— Then strikes into a changeful chaunt That fits his fanciful romaunt.
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Cooper, Thomas
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