Definitions for barcaroles

barcaroles bar·ca·role

Spelling: [bahr-kuh-rohl]
IPA: /ˈbɑr kəˌroʊl/

Barcaroles is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 656 anagrams from letters in barcaroles (aabcelorrs).

Definitions for barcaroles

noun

  1. a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
  2. a piece of music composed in the style of such songs.

Origin of barcaroles

1605-15; Venetian barcarola boatman's song, feminine of barcarolo, equivalent to barcar- (Late Latin barcārius boatman; see bark3, -ary

Examples for barcaroles

Dulcamara brings out a piece of music, which he says is the latest thing from Venice, a barcarole for two voices.

The barcarole is one of the few which by virtue of its serene and classical beauty has still been able to survive it.

He ran upstairs, singing a barcarole at the top of his voice, and rushed into the room, waving the model ship above his head.

The blind beggar touched his harp; in the distance were heard the rhythmic strains of a barcarole.

Théophile was singing the barcarole from the second act of Aline, Queen of Golconda at the top of his voice.

Then one song and another was called for, and the night rang with ballad and barcarole, glee and round.

Madame Hvoslef, who is an accomplished performer, sat down to it, and gave us the barcarole from Massaniello.

My own father was barcarole there to a great Milordo, I can't say how many years back.

She wandered off into the gentle sadness of Godard's "barcarole," and the three ghosts sat motionless.

I enhanced the likeness very much, last Friday morning, by singing a barcarole on the rocks.

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