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virelais

virelais is the plural of virelai.

Meaning of virelai

Noun

virelai (plural virelais)

  1. (historical) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.
    • Now making layes of loue and louers paine,
      Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about virelais

What is virelais the plural of?
Virelais is the plural of virelai.

Words near virelais in the dictionary

  1. Virden
  2. vire
  3. vired
  4. Viredaz
  5. virelai
  6. virelais
  7. virelay
  8. virelays
  9. Virella
  10. Virellas
  11. virement

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