Authority Cited: L’Acad.
Author name and dates: Académie françoise
BKG Bio-tweet: Official dictionary of French language; 3rd ed., Paris, 1740; SJ: definition of virlay
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Académie françoise cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Académie françoise cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition that SJ used is unknown.]
Author name and dates: Académie françoise
BKG Bio-tweet: Official dictionary of French language; 3rd ed., Paris, 1740; SJ: definition of virlay
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Académie françoise cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Académie françoise cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The edition that SJ used is unknown.]
- Le dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise. Dedie au Roy, Tome Second, M-Z ... 1694, Paris: Vve de J.B. Coignard; virelay (vol. 2, p.646). Dict.: "A sort of little ancient French poem, that consisted only of two rhymes and short verses, with stops." See image below for French text.
