Definition 2024
lullay
lullay
English
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Interjection
lullay
- (archaic) Used to soothe or urge someone to sleep.
- 1866, Edmund Sedding, "Lullaby Carols", The Gentlemen's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, page 89:
- ...in "Ludus Coventriæ", of the 15th century, we find a specimen of a Lullaby Song ... lully, lullay, Thou little tiny CHILD,
