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Plaint on ousting enemy's mounted men
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elegy
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Elegy is an album by John Zorn , which was dedicated to Jean Genet , featuring four "file card" compositions titled after colors and arranged in the style of chamber music .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a funeral elegy EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise. ▪ Gillian Wearing presents an elegy to one of life's losers. ▪ Mind out! elegy A mournful poem. ...
Usage examples of elegy.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
Mishap to a Queening PawnON SUNDAY, the day after the affair at Lake of Menteith, Lord Culter was also taking aquatic exercise of a kind which all but turned his epithalamics into 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!
He heard elegies to springs on planets which no longer existed, green dances and firelight, wails and halloos, a harvest of conversations without number.