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 vir·e·lay /ˈvɪrəˌle/
 古代法國的一節二韻詩

 Vir·e·lay n.  An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
 Of such matter made he many lays,
 Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.   --Chaucer.
    To which a lady sung a virelay.   --Dryden.
 Note: ☞ “The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other.”
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