An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain. [
1913 Webster]
" “The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other.”" Nares.
[1913 Webster]
"Of such matter made he many lays,
Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes."
[1913 Webster]
"To which a lady sung a virelay."
[1913 Webster]