serenata
noun
a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
serenate
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pluralof serenata.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Love, he says, reigns and revels in Eden, not in court amours, Mixed dance, or wanton mask, or midnight ball, Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
From Milton by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
These were the "serenate publiche," common and commercial affairs, which the private serenata left behind in contempt, steering past their flaring lights for the dark waters of romance which lay beyond.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward
