Virelay
virelay (?), n. (F. virelai;virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.) An ancient French
song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines,
with a refrain.
Of such matter made he many lays,
Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.
Chaucer.
To which a lady sung a virelay.
Dryden.
f The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after
employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the
other. Nares.
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