Definition of Vireley
Vir"e*lay (?), n. [F. virelai;
virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.] An ancient French
song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines,
with a refrain.
Of such matter made he many lays,
Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.
Chaucer.
To which a lady sung a virelay.
Dryden.
&fist; "The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after
employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the
other." Nares.
Vir"e*lay (?), n. [F. virelai;
virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.] An ancient French
song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines,
with a refrain.
Of such matter made he many lays,
Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.
Chaucer.
To which a lady sung a virelay.
Dryden.
&fist; "The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after
employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the
other." Nares.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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