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Roundelay

noun
1.
A song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain.





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"Roundelay" Quotes from Famous Books



... found them treading resolutely the herring-bone walk through the tiny garden. The April wind was filling the pine trees with its roundelay, and the grove was alive with robins—great, plump, saucy fellows, strutting along the paths. The girls rang rather timidly, and were admitted by a grim and ancient handmaiden. The door opened directly ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... light at night and shade at noon, Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away All shafts of shelterless, tumultuous day Like the moon's growth, his face gleams through his tune, And as soft waters warble to the moon Our answering spirits chime one roundelay" ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr
... and day by day Faces defeat full patiently, And lifts a mirthful roundelay However poor his fortunes be— He will not fail in any qualm Of poverty; the paltry dime— It will grow golden in his ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various


Words linked to "Roundelay" :   song, vocal


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