melodye
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French melodie, from Latin melodia.
Noun
melodye (plural melodyes)
- music; song; melody
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
- And smale foweles maken melodye,
- That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
- (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
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