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Mourning songs
Answer for the clue "Mourning songs ", 7 letters:
elegies
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Word definitions for elegies in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. Elegies . [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem. sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. --Shak.
Usage examples of elegies.
From this ignorance in some, and vanity in others, we see the monthly and diurnal publications abounding with ballads, odes, elegies, epitaphs, and allegories, the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters, all ushered into notice under the appellation of SONNET!