different between roundelay vs roundlet
roundelay
English
Alternative forms
- rondelay
Etymology
From Middle French rondelet, diminutive of Old French rondel (French: rondeau). Ending -lay either from lay (“ballad or sung poem”), or from virelay.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??a?nd??le?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??a?nd??le?/
Noun
roundelay (plural roundelays)
- (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Perigot and Willie's Roundelay published in The Shepheardes Calender, republished in 1907, William Stanley Braithwaite, ed., The Book of Elizabethan Verse.
- It fell upon a holly eve,
- Hey ho, hollidaye!
- When holly fathers wont to shrieve,
- Now gynneth this roundelay.
- 1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Song - The Owl published in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical
- When merry milkmaids click the latch
- And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
- And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
- Twice or thrice his roundelay,
- Twice or thrice his roundelay;
- Alone and warming his five wits,
- The white owl in the belfry sits.
- 1871, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament published in Contemporary Review
- "Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry
- To dance without a catch, a roundelay
- To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp,
- And while he twangled little Dagonet stood
- Quiet as any water-sodden log
- Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;...
- 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, Chapter First, page 61.
- For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay;...
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, Perigot and Willie's Roundelay published in The Shepheardes Calender, republished in 1907, William Stanley Braithwaite, ed., The Book of Elizabethan Verse.
- A dance in a circle.
- Anything having a round form; a roundel.
See also
- rondeau
- roundel
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roundlet
English
Etymology
From Middle English roundelet, from Middle French rondelet, a diminutive of rondel (“small circle”).
Noun
roundlet (plural roundlets)
- A small disk, circle or other round object.
Synonyms
- rondel
Related terms
- rondeau
- rondelet
- roundelay
roundlet From the web:
- what does roundlet mean
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