| 词汇 | love lay |
| 词源 | love lay. A love lay is a love song, the term dating back to the 14th century. A lay, from the Old French lai, “song,” was origi- nally a short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung, but has come to include historical narrative poems (ballads) such as Scott’s The Lay of the Last Minstrel. |
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