Associations to the word «Roundelay»

Wiktionary

ROUNDELAY, noun. (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
ROUNDELAY, noun. A dance in a circle.
ROUNDELAY, noun. Anything having a round form; a roundel.

Dictionary definition

ROUNDELAY, noun. A song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne