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romaunt, n. and a. arch.|rəʊˈmɔːnt|
Forms: 6 roma(u)nte, 6–8 romant, 7 romand, 7, 9 romaunt.
[a. OF. romant (later roman), an analogical variant of romanz, romans romance.]
1. A romance; a romantic tale or poem.
1530Palsgr. 486/2 Though I fynde it moche used in the Romante of the Rose, it is..nowe lytle used. 1542Chaucer's Rom. Rose 39 It is the Romaunte of the Rose, In whiche all the arte of loue I close. 1593Drayton Ecl. vi. 37 Or else some Romant unto us areede. 1614Selden Titles Honor 44 Take for it, this testimony out of an old Romaunt. 1682Creech Lucretius (1683) 119 Ten thousand such Romants the Vulgar tell. 1765Percy Reliques III. p. vi, As the Songs of Chivalry became the most popular compositions in that language, they were emphatically called Romans or Romants. 1812Byron (title), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vi, Then there are the minstrels, with their romaunts and ballads. 1884Ruskin Art of England i. 5 The habit of regarding the external and real World as a Singer of Romaunts would have regarded it.
2. A Romance form of speech; also attrib., Romance, Romanic, in respect of language.
In quots. applied to older French and to Romansh.
1530Palsgr. Introd. 41 Mye is an olde Romant worde. Ibid. 446/1 Je ruse,..and in olde Romant je lobe. Ibid. 486/2 It [adherdre] is an olde Romant worde and nowe lytle used.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. viii. (1864) V. 396 note, But was the Romaunt version understood in Metz? Ibid. 405 The Romaunt among the peasants of the Alpine valleys. |