aubade

Example Sentences

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But this dalliance with aubade was short-lived, after which Tower and Weilerstein hit the ground running.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

In May, he proposed to his longtime girlfriend and tour manager, Ally Dale, so he celebrates finding love during the tender aubade “In the Morning Light.”

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2021

One is a nocturne, the other, a kind of aubade, or alba.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2013

The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth