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chant royal

chant royal noun: a complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.

Noun

chant royal

  1. A complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.

Origin of chant royal

Borrowed from French chant royal.

Questions about chant royal

What does chant royal mean?
Chant royal means a complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.
What part of speech is chant royal?
Chant royal is a noun.

Words near chant royal in the dictionary

  1. chansons
  2. chanspeak
  3. chanst
  4. chant
  5. chant de cour
  6. chant royal
  7. chant talk
  8. chant therapies
  9. chant therapy
  10. chantable
  11. Chantada

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