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plural virelais
(historical, poetry) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern. quotations
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