Word of the Day for Monday 3rd March 2014
Aubade
\ oh-BAD, oh-BAHD \, noun;
1.Music. a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment
to someone.
Quotes:
He was usually still awake when the birds began to warble their aubade .
-- Christopher Buckley, "What was Robert Benchley?" National Review, 1997
He often came to listen to her evening vespers, the requiem that Liringlas
sang for the sun as it sank below the edge of the world, welcoming it again
in the morning with the dawn aubade, the love song to the morning sky.
-- Elizabeth Haydon, Requiem for the Sun, 2003
Origin:
Aubade comes from the French term aube, meaning “dawn” and the noun
suffix - ade: aube ultimately derives from Latin albus, white, pale, as in alba
lux, the pale light of dawn.
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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