chansonn.
/ˈʃɒ̃sɒ̃/, /ˈʃɒnsɒ̃/, /ˈʃɒnsɒn/, U.S. /ʃɑnˈsɔn/ Any French song or song set to French words; esp. a French polyphonic song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Now also: a genre of French popular music, sung in French typically by singer-songwriters, and often having poetic or political lyrics.
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a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 32 He ware ful of felicite & blis that couth deuotlie say or sing this haly chansoune and sange.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 422 The first rowe of the pious chanson [1623 Pons Chanson] will showe you more. View more context for this quotation
1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xlvii. 27 Each his Instrument, His holy Chanzons fitted to their String.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband ii. 20 When you are there,..a little Chat, a Dish of Tea, Mademoiselle's Good Humour, and a Petit Chanson, or two; the Devil's in't if a Man can't fool away the Time.
1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xxvi. 142 These [Carols] were festal chansons.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey V. vii. xiii. 191 Gentle poet, would that thou hadst some chanson or courtly compliment.
1873 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Sept. 347/1 Accomplished in various tongues, rattling off a gay little chanson or an Irish song.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 171/2 The pastoral, which tells how Marion resisted the knight, and remained faithful to Robert the shepherd, is based on an old chanson.
1958 F. L. Harrison Music in Medieval Brit. 235 Most pieces in chanson style were divided by changes of measure into several sections.
2013 Nightshift May 14/2 Touching base with French chanson, tribal rhythms, blues, folk and inventive trinket-laden corners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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