vir|e|lay

vir|e|lay
vir|e|lay «VIHR uh lay», noun.
1. an old French form of short lyric poem with two rhymes to a stanza, the first two lines forming a refrain, repeated at intervals.
2. any one of several similar forms, especially one consisting of longer and shorter lines, the lines of each kind rhyming together in a stanza, and the rhyme of the short lines repeated in the long lines of the following stanza.
╂[< Old French virelai, alteration (probably influenced by Old French lai lay, lyric) of vireli a refrain]

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