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- noun Plural form of
virelai .
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Examples
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I think my brain would e'splode if I tried to sing virelais...
seanan_mcguire: Because I don't ask you to do what I won't do... seanan_mcguire 2009
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A big boy who is tackling Haeckel or composing _virelais_ in playtime is doing himself no good, and is worse than useless to the society of which he is a member.
Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878
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Rondeaux, ballades, virelais, chants royaux, chansons are to be cast aside as _épiceries_; and their place is to be taken by odes like those of Pindar or of Horace, by the elegy, satire, epigram, epic, or by newer forms justified by the practice of Italian masters.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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The earliest Poetic in French -- _L'art de dictier et de fere chançons, balades, virelais, et rondeaulx_ (1392) -- is the work of
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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I can make Chansons, ballades, lais, virelais, and roundels, and I am very fond of wine.
Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) 1839-1908 [Contributor] Ouida 1873
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1 Various other kinds of lyric poetry begin to appear at the end of the twelfth century, motots, serventois, pastourelles, rotrouenges, rondeaux, lais, ballettes, and virelais.
Introduction 1920
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Textes, 1878 ff. (which MS. contains, _e. g._, 1175 ballads, 171 roundels, and 80 virelais), and A. Sarradin, "Etude sur Eustache des
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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