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Definition of Chanson
1. n. A song.
Definition of Chanson
1. Noun. Any song with French words, but more specifically classic, lyric-driven French songs. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A religious song. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chanson
1. a song [n -S] - See also: song
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chanson
Literary usage of Chanson
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert (1883)
"TITUS AND VESPASIAN, or the Destruction of Jerusalem: a chanson de geste, ...
In this chanson the emperor Vespasian, who is afflicted with leprosy, ..."
2. Trouvères and Troubadours: A Popular Treatise by Pierre Aubry (1914)
"They are all written in the langue d'o'il (the language of Northern France) and
anonymous: the metre is still that of the chanson de geste (ballad of ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"A FEUDAL EPIC : LA chanson D'ANTIOCHE ... were not the time or place in which to
reproduce the true (1) LA chanson ..."
4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Romance gathered about Charlemagne as about Arthur. The chanson de Roland, an
heroic poem in four chanson de thousand and one ten-syllabled ..."
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