volkslied
Americannoun
plural
volksliedernoun
Etymology
Origin of volkslied
From German
Example Sentences
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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 Guipon, Leon
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
Even the human inhabitants do not sing here, and on these melancholy coasts the strain of a volkslied is never heard.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
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.
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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