Definitions for roundelays

roundelays roun·de·lay

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

Roundelays is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1112 anagrams from letters in roundelays (adelnorsuy).

Definitions for roundelays

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 roundelays

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

Examples for roundelays

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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