tagelied
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A medieval German lyric genre, popular from the 13th to 16th centuries, focusing on the painful separation of lovers at dawn.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Tagelied
Example Sentences
- "Kürenberg composed in a form of strophe similar to that of the Nibelungenlied, while Dietmar von Aist has given us the earliest German "Tagelied," that is to say, a poem analogous to the Provençal "alba" or French "aubade", in which two lovers are warned of the approach of dawn."
- "But his instinct for the different shades of atmosphere, light, color, sound is infinitely finer. His Tagelieder are the most exquisite of their kind."
- "His poems include a Tagelied (q.v.) of exceptional length, the style of which exhibits popular as well as courtly elements."
- "The early aubades and tagelieder in particular are just full of noble knights who nonetheless are a rather randy lot and never pass up the chance for a good roll in the hay with an unhappily married noblewoman."