volkslied
noun
a folk song.
volkslied
American
[fawlks-leet]
/ ˈfɔlksˌlit /
noun
volkslieder
plural
Volkslied
British
/ ˈfɔlksliːt /
noun
Etymology
Origin of volkslied
From German
Example Sentences
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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 Chesson, W. H.
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 Jókai, Mór
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 De Morgan, William Frend
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 Guipon, Leon
Probably, however, he means the communal lyric in survival, not the ballad, not what Germans would include under volkslied and Frenchmen under chanson populaire.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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