Zejelesque
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Zejelesque is an adjective meaning Alternative form of zajalesque.
Meaning
Alternative form of zajalesque.
Example Sentences
A more zejelesque kind of verse, however, is found in the anonymous Provencal baladas.
The originality of this eight-line stanza lies in the fact that the zejelesque rhyme scheme (aaab) shows up on even-numbered lines, while odd-numbered lines remain free, except for the seventh, which sometimes has an a rhyme.
The relationship between the villancico and parallelistic or zejelesque elaborations remains a mystery, but S.R. sees the few examples of popular traditional elaborations as neither rigidly parallelistic, on the one hand, nor, on the other, zejelesque ; they are an amalgam of the two formulae, and could be called "zejelismo paralelistico" or "paralelismo zejelesco".
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mediaevalesque, jazzlike, gauchoesque, zooeal, gaucho-esque, zoogleic.
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