virelai

• virelay

From Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪɹəleɪ/

virelai (plural virelais)

1. (historical, poetry) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].

virelai m (plural virelais)

1. (poetry) virelai

• “virelai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

virelai m (plural virelais)

1. virelai

virelai m (oblique plural virelais, nominative singular virelais, nominative plural virelai)

1. virelai

• English: virelai (borrowed)
• French: virelai