Roundelay
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɹaʊndɪˌleɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Roundelay is a noun meaning (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
Meaning
(music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
More Meanings
- A dance in a circle.
- Anything having a round form; a roundel.
Example Sentences
It fell upon a holly eve, Hey ho, hollidaye! When holly fathers wont to shrieve, Now gynneth this roundelay.
For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay;[…]
When merry milkmaids click the latch And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
"Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry To dance without a catch, a roundelay To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp, And while he twangled little Dagonet stood Quiet as any water-sodden log Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;[…]
Word Forms
- roundelays
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include verse, sequence, ordo, line, versicle, rondelet.
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