aubade
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of aubade
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
“And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.”
“Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.”
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noun
-
A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
“And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.”
“Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.”
- (specifically)A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
- A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).
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