Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A song, or a musical service, performed in the morning. See aubade, 1, laud, 4, and matin, 3.

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Examples

  • Without, innumerable birds were raising that glad, piercing, hurried morning-song which very anciently caused Adam's primal waking, to behold his mate.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • The first thing that Buddy Brown-Thrasher did then was to seek his favorite perch in the very top of his own special tree and sing a morning-song that was more joyous than ever.

    The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • And for once in his life he did not pause to sing his morning-song from his favorite perch in the tree-top.

    The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • And since it was for that very purpose that he had gone without both his breakfast and his morning-song, he was satisfied.

    The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • Without, innumerable birds were raising that glad, piercing, hurried morning-song which very anciently caused Adam's primal waking, to behold his mate.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • He has never heard of the morning-song of Memnon; but he fancies, somehow, that those closed lips might speak if questioned.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • The grand chorus, 'O Signore dal tetto natiò,' in which the censor had only seen a pious chant, became the morning-song of national resurrection.] [Footnote 4: Long live who has money and who has none. '] [Footnote 5: Of Garibaldi's foreign officers, Colonel (afterwards

    The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891

  • Gottfried and Hartmann, though the former has left no lyric), has left us few but very remarkable _aubades_, in which the commonplace of the morning-song, with its disturbance of lovers, is treated in no commonplace way.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

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