serenade

• The students came in procession with torch-lights to give him a parting serenade, and many of his friends and colleagues were also present to bid him farewell. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• Rossini had been weak enough to allow Garcia to sing a Spanish melody for a serenade, for the latter urged the necessity of vivid national and local color. —  Great Italian and French Composers
• The wicked music of Mephistopheles in the sarcastic serenade, the powerful duel trio, and Valentine's curse are of the highest order of expression; while the church scene, where the fiend whispers his taunts in the ear of the disgraced Marguerite , as the gloomy musical hymn and peals of the organ menace her with an irreversible doom, is a weird and thrilling picture of despair, agony, and devilish exultation. —  Great Italian and French Composers
• If the peepers haven't already started their serenade, they will soon in a vernal pool near you. —  RutlandHerald.com
• She broke into another merry laugh which, together with the patronage of her words and certain unsavory memories of his own, nettled Champney more than he would have cared to acknowledge Better 'n the thayertre," she repeated emphatically; "and the lords serenade the ladies--Do yer know wot a serenade is?" —  Flamsted quarries

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