volkslied
noun
a folk song.
volkslied
American
[fawlks-leet]
/ ˈfɔlksˌlit /
noun
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volkslieder
plural
Volkslied
British
/ ˈfɔlksliːt /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of volkslied
From German
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Some one was striking the preliminary chords of a volkslied on his favorite instrument, a Rhaetian variation of the zither.
From The Princess Virginia by Leon Guipon
The schoolmaster and young Deyke had hastened out again, and soon the simple but beautiful volkslied of the country commenced.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
Some tiny trace of memory of the fat Kreutzkammer lingered in her husband's crippled mind—something as confused as the revolving engine's connexion with the German volkslied.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
Mr Andrew Lang decides that it is a volkslied, to which, for the version of it illustrated by Cruikshank, Thackeray contributed the notes considered by some to be by Dickens.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
It was a simple volkslied, the same with which the nurse was wont to rock the cradle of Angela when she was a baby—a Slav tune.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
To know the Volkslied we must descend from our fine palaces, and know it in the place where it grows, and become one with them who brought it forth.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
The Volkslied exhales the very perfume of nature.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
Some, again, are importations from other provinces, especially from Sicily and Naples, caught up by the peasants of Tuscany and adapted to their taste and style; for nothing travels faster than a Volkslied.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Yes," she responded, with tremulous agitation, "with that Volkslied.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
He sang a Volkslied, and in a way which showed that there was poetry in the man's nature, though his outward appearance gave so little promise of it.
From The Unclassed by George Gissing
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