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‖ kyrielle|kɪrɪˈɛl|
Also 3 kyriel, 7 kiriele.
[a. F. kyrielle, OF. (13th c.) kyriele; in med.L. kiriel, pl. kyrieles (Du Cange); so MHG. kiriel; shortened from kyrie eleison: see prec.]
1. A long rigmarole.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi, With him he mumbled all his Kiriele and dunsical breborions [orig. avecques icelluy marmonnoit toutes ces Kyrielles].
2. A kind of French verse divided into little equal couplets and ending with the same word which serves for the refrain.
1887Sat. Rev. 3 Dec. 770/1 Among the verse-forms... The kyrielle, of which we have three specimens, is not a form at all, and ought to have been discarded. |