aubade
nounUK /əʊˈbɑːd/ · US /oʊˈbɑd/
Etymology PIE word *albʰós Borrowed from French aubade, from Old French albade, from Old Spanish albada (“musical or poetic composition to be performed in the morning”), from alba (“dawn”), from Vulgar Latin *alba (“dawn; sunrise”), from Latin albus (“bright, clear; white”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”).
Communications, Entertainment, Journalism, Lifestyle, Literature, Media, Music, Poetry, Publishing, Writing A poem or song evoking or greeting the dawn or early morning.
- 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.1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:
- Alladad Khan woke to the far crying of kampong cocks in the dark. That noise had been the farmyard aubade in the Punjab in his dream.1956, Anthony Burgess, chapter 11, in Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), London: William Heinemann, published 1968, →ISBN, page 155:
Communications, Entertainment, Journalism, Lifestyle, Literature, Media, Music, Poetry, Publishing, Writing Specifically A morning love song, or a song of lovers parting in the morning.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A concert held at dawn or in the morning, especially outdoors.