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berceuse
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noun
plural
berceusesa cradlesong; lullaby.
a composition for instrument or voice, having a soothing, reflective character.
berceuse
/ ɛø /
noun
a cradlesong or lullaby
an instrumental piece suggestive of this, in six-eight time
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of berceuse1
Example Sentences
"Impossible!" her vanity made reply, and the berceuse which she was playing assumed the character of a triumphal march.
As she passed each corpse she knelt beside it and sang the foolish little berceuse that Poitou mothers sing to their babies.
Doubtless she knew it too, as she sat there sewing on the frail garment which lay across her knee and singing blithely under her breath some air with cadence like a berceuse.
I found him seated in a berceuse on the veranda.
The plaintive melody of the berceuse rang in her ears on duty and off, till at last she could stand it no longer.
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