Hypertext Webster Gateway: "elegy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Elegy \El"e*gy\, n.; pl. {Elegies}. [L. elegia, Gr. ?, fem.
sing. (cf. ?, prop., neut. pl. of ? a distich in elegiac
verse), fr. ? elegiac, fr. ? a song of mourning.]
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of
lamentation. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
elegy
n : a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: {lament}]
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