Madrigals [noun]

Definition of Madrigals:

joyful hymn

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Opposite/Antonyms of Madrigals:

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Sentence/Example of Madrigals:

The publication of madrigals in praise of Queen Elizabeth, after her death, may be easily accounted for.

Now a question arises, who was the Bonny-boots mentioned in the two last-quoted madrigals?

The musicians meanwhile performed a series of madrigals accompanied by viole d'amore, violins, and viole da gamba.

His page René was a poet, and had written many sonnets and madrigals.

He bound himself to pay for his quarterly allowance in quarterly madrigals, ballads, or sonnets.

It looks as if he had tried to imitate the Madrigals he had heard, and to adapt some of the phrases to sacred words.

Of this sort are Weelkes's madrigals mentioned below, book ii.

Yet it looked to her in unreasoning agony that it was so, for now he was with Edith, indulging in more madrigals, no doubt.

Her published compositions took the shape of two volumes64 of madrigals, issued in 1568 and 1583.

This collection consists not merely of sonnets but of madrigals, sestines, canzons, and other attempts after Italian masters.