Volksliedn.
1. A German folk song; a popular song in a German folk idiom.
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Volkslied1858
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 26 May (1998) 317 His wife..sang us some charming Bavarian Volkslieder.
1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life ii. 8 Dr. Charles Follen, known in his own country as Carl Follenius..wrote some fine spirited Volkslieder.
1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 159 The second [sc. Glinka's wedding song in five-four time]..freed music from the restricting and lumbering rhythms of the German Volkslied.
1977 Early Music 5 213/1 Only two songs are true ‘volkslieder’ with the usual upbeat opening and steady chorale-like melody.
2. South African.
a. Historical. The national anthem of the 19th-century Transvaal Republic.
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Rule Britanniac1745
anthem1753
Yankee Doodle1768
Marseillaise hymn1794
national anthem1804
star-spangled banner1814
queen1898
Volkslied1898
Hatikvah1905
king1932
Horst Wessel song1937
1898 C. Rae Malaboch 217 Volkslied, the Transvaal National Anthem.
1921 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 18 Jan. The singing of the Volkslied and a vote of thanks to General Hertzog closed the meeting.
1954 H. Gibbs Background to Bitterness ii. ix. 149 So they had ridden off, farmers, shop assistants, civil servants, lawyers, singing the Volkslied as they camped close to the southern frontier with Natal.
b. A simple popular folk song.
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1874 Cape Monthly Mag. 254 We should, in the pages of the Magazine, from time to time collect some of the..‘Volks-liedjes’ written in the Cape Dutch patois.
1961 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 19 Mar. 10/7 The 16 girls and 14 boys in the choir will give Volksliedjie recitals and volkspele performances.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1858- throw one's weight about
- throw one's weight about or around
- throw one's weight around
- throw one's wicket away
- throw oneself at
- throw oneself at the head of
- throw oneself away
- throw oneself into
- throw oneself into the arms of
- throw oneself on
- throw oneself upon
- throw open
- throw open one's doors
- throw out
- throw out a tub to the whale
- throw out of gear
- throw out of state
- throw out on etc ass
- throw out on her ass
- throw out on his ass
- throw out one's eyes
- throw out the baby with the bathwater
- throw over
- throw over the bar
- throw over the perch