单词 | reverdie |
释义 | reverdien. A song or dance from medieval France celebrating the return of spring; a song composed in imitation of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > other lyric poems stornello1873 reverdie1896 1896 S. W. Mitchell Coll. Poems 211 He spun a languid lay Set her a weeping for an April day. And then a reverdie, I scarcely knew Just what it meant. 1933 R. Tuve Seasons & Months i. 13 This description..includes the same details as the opening stanza of a Middle English spring song or an Old French reverdie. 1976 Scottish Rev. Spring 19 In a song, ‘The Dark Days are By’, in March 1940, he uses the simplest and barest of words to convey the mood of a traditional reverdie. 1999 Rev. Eng. Stud. 50 188 Is ‘Summer is icumen in’ a reverdie? Most commentators have thought so. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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