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virelay

virelay is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of virelay

pluralvirelays

Origin of virelay

From French.

Questions about virelay

What is virelay the alternative spelling of?
Virelay is the alternative spelling of virelai.

Words near virelay in the dictionary

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

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