Definitions for Lai

Lai lai

Spelling: [ley]
IPA: /leɪ/

Lai is a 3 letter English word.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in Lai (ail).

Definitions for Lai

noun

  1. (in medieval French literature)
  2. a narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets and dealing with tales of adventure and romance.
  3. a lyric poem, often a love poem, having great metrical variety and designed to be sung to a popular melody.

Origin of Lai

1200-50; Middle English Old French. See lay4

Examples for Lai

Once upon a time there was a woman who lived in the State of lai Hka.

A lai tou chia a tou chia, moung hang yeh ngong ngi, chiu tiao yeh.

This is the lai, a term which is used in old French poetry with two different significations.

Chaucer perhaps took the concluding circumstance of his Dream from the lai de Eliduc.

In both versions of the lai the lady herself invites the adventure.

lai last saw Knox a few days ago, she said, at a Vietnamese sandwich shop a couple of blocks from the Hong Kong building.

Britanny contributed the wonderfully suggestive Arthurian legends, and the peculiar music and style of the lai.

These lines, found also in lai le Freine, would serve as preface to any of the Breton lays, with the couplet ll.

The creative team behind the new My lai project is working out the details for set design.

It was more simply turned, however, than was the general cast of the sirventes, and rather resembled the lai of a Norman minstrel.

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