virelay
noun
an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.
virelai
-
a variation of
virelay.
Example Sentences
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Virelays: ballads; the "virelai" was an ancient French poem of two rhymes.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
What shall I weave for thee—what shall I spin— Rondel, or rondeau, or virelai?
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Charles Cotton, one of whose rondeaus has been quoted, also wrote a virelai.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
