'Roundelay' definitions:
Definition of 'roundelay'
(from WordNet)
noun
A song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain
Definition of 'Roundelay'
From: GCIDE
- Roundelay \Round"e*lay\, n. [OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See Roundel, Roundeau, and cf. Roundlet, Rundlet.]
- 1. (Poetry) See Rondeau, and Rondel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. --Spenser. --Tennyson. (b) A dance in a circle. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything having a round form; a roundel. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roundelay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- bucolic,
- canon,
- canso,
- catch,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- eclogue,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- fugato,
- fugue,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- palinode,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- poem,
- prothalamium,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- rondino,
- rondo,
- rondoletto,
- round,
- roundel,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- triolet,
- troll,
- troubadour poem,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay