Roundelay

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roundelay \Round"e*lay\, n. [OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See
     {Roundel}, {Roundeau}, and cf. {Roundlet}, {Rundlet}.]
     1. (Poetry) See {Rondeau}, and {Rondel}.
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     2. (Mus.)


        (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a
            simple rural strain which is short and lively.
            --Spenser. --Tennyson.
        (b) A dance in a circle.
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     3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roundelay
       n : a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "roundelay":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
     balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canon, canso, catch, chanson,
     clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram,
     epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, fugato, fugue,
     georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal,
     monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral,
     pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme,
     rondeau, rondel, rondino, rondo, rondoletto, round, roundel,
     satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka,
     tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troll, troubadour poem, verse,
     verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay