VIRELAY
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Vir"e*lay (?), n. [F. virelai; virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.] An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
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Of such matter made he many lays,
Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.
Chaucer.
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To which a lady sung a virelay.
Dryden.
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&hand_; “The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other.” Nares.
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