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View synonyms for aubade
aubade
[ oh-bad, oh-bahd; French oh-bad ]
noun
, Music.
, plural au·bades [oh-, badz, oh-, bahdz, oh-, bad].
- a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.
aubade
/ obad /
noun
- a song or poem appropriate to or greeting the dawn
- a romantic or idyllic prelude or overture
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aubade1
C19: from French, from Old Provençal aubada (unattested), from auba dawn, ultimately from Latin albus white
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Example Sentences
After all, that “Aubade Provenale” was just the melodious story of the woods in spring.
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He remembered that Alain was supposed to sing an aubade, a dawn song, in the street below to warn and rouse him.
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Sweet as any aubade of the olden time, under olive and ilex, is it not?
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