Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.
