English

Alternative forms

• virelay

Noun

virelai ‎(plural virelais)

1. (historical, poetry) 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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].

French

Noun

virelai m ‎(plural virelais)

1. (poetry) virelai

Middle French

Noun

virelai m (plural virelais)

1. virelai

Old French

Noun

virelai m ‎(oblique plural virelais, nominative singular virelais, nominative plural virelai)

1. virelai

Descendants

• English: virelai (borrowed)
• French: virelai