Definitions for "Virelay"
Keywords:  rhyme, verse, bcbc, cdcd, virer
An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
An ancient French verse form consisting of stanzas of indeterminate length and number, with alternating long and short lines and an interlaced rhyme scheme, as abab bcbc cdcd dada. Sidelight: Virelay is the Anglicized spelling of the French virelai, a variation of the lai.
Virelay is the title applied to more than one fixed form of verse, from the French virer, "to turn or veer". The history and exact character of the virelay are more obscure than those of any other of the old French forms. It is possible that it is connected with the Provençal ley.
Keywords:  above, see
See virelai above.