Definitions for roundelay

roundelay roun·de·lay

Spelling: [roun-dl-ey]
IPA: /ˈraʊn dlˌeɪ/

Roundelay is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 591 anagrams from letters in roundelay (adelnoruy).

Definitions for roundelay

noun

  1. a song in which a phrase, line, or the like, is continually repeated.
  2. the music for such a song.
  3. a dance in a circle; round dance.

Origin of roundelay

1565-75; alteration (influenced by lay4) of Middle French rondelet, diminutive of rondel roundel

Examples for roundelay

Why sing a roundelay that means no more than Choctaw to a Turk?

W—— paused for another second or two; but then went on with his roundelay.

Both are silent, as though listening to the plash of the oar-blades, or the roundelay of late singing birds on the river's bank.

Voices rippled from chantey to roundelay and back to chantey again.

His smile was bright and his skip was lightAs he chirruped his roundelay.

When holy fathers wont to shrieve; Now gynneth this roundelay.

In this drama is the exquisite melody, "O, sing unto my roundelay!"

Another illustration of the way in which the improved condition of things was brought about is in the case of roundelay.

Today, she drums the roundelay of the Lupanars on the back of my neck.

Keats calls the piece a ‘roundelay,’—a form which it only so far resembles that its opening measures are repeated at the close.

Word Value for roundelay
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