Definition of "virelai" []

• A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern. (noun)

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• "Even a little melancholy, some kind of virelai, rhythmic and rueful."
• "Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song particularly the lai, and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and ballade."
• "That's because I am so totally not writing an example of each type of virelai."