Home › Words › V › virelaivirelai/ˈvɪɹəleɪ/virelai · noun — A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).virelai is pronounced /ˈvɪɹəleɪ/.EtymologyFrom Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.nounA medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, with the rhyme scheme AABAAB.e.g.“Now making layes of loue and louers paine, Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.villanelle 68% match — A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes. vs virelai →biolet 60% match — A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA. vs virelai →lai 60% match — A mostly North European medieval form of lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance, with stanzas that do not repeat. vs virelai →rondeau 59% match — A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas. vs virelai →villanel 59% match — A ballad. vs virelai →quatrain 58% match — A poem in four lines. vs virelai →versifying 58% match — A composition in verse. vs virelai →triolet 58% match — An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter. vs virelai →