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Definition of Aubade
1. n. An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
Definition of Aubade
1. Noun. A song or poem greeting or evoking the dawn. ¹
2. Noun. A morning love song; a song of lovers parting in the morning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aubade
1. a morning song [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aubade
Literary usage of Aubade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yellow Book (1896)
"aubade By Rosamund Marriott Watson So late last night I watched with you, and
yet You come to wake me while the dews are grey, Before the sun is forth upon ..."
2. English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative by Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"85 aubade , Hark, hark 1 the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs On ..."
3. The Oxford Treasury of English Literature by Grace Eleanor Hadow (1908)
"aubade THE lark now leaves his watery nest, And, climbing, shakes his dewy wings.
He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings— ..."
4. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"Aubain, a foreigner, in O.Fr. is said to be alibi natus. aubade. [Fr. aube, dawn, L.
alba.] 1. Open- air morning concert ; a kind of ..."
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