Definition for VIR'E-LAY

VIR'E-LAY, n. [Fr. virelai, from wirer, to turn.]

A song or little poem among the Provencal poets in France; a roundelay. It sometimes consisted of two rhymes only, and short verses, with stops. Johnson. Cyc. To which a lady sung a virelay. Dryden.

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