romaunt
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of romaunt
1520–30; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French romant romance 1
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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 Montague Summers
"Sir Floris" is an allegorical romaunt founded on a passage in "Le Violier des Histoires Provenciaux."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Thomas Cooper
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 A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
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