Elegy /(?)/

El·e·gy

Elegy

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.

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