serenade
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1. serenade - Noun
2. serenade - Verb
Meaning
Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlemen, in a spirit of gallantry, under the windows of ladies.
A piece of music suitable to be performed at such times.
To entertain with a serenade.
To perform a serenade.
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She was serenaded by her admirers
A chorus of young peasants, among them Cherubino disguised as a girl, arrives to serenade the Countess.
The beauty mogul also got a birthday serenade from daughter Stormi and a diamond necklace from baby Dady Travis.
Despite being quite content as a violinist, the bassoon is my favorite instrument, and a major reason is this serenade.
He tries to sing his serenade, but he makes so many mistakes (his tune repeatedly places accents on the wrong syllables of the words) that from the repeated knocks Sachs finishes the shoes.
Contemplative and cathartic, Songs for the Saints features appearances by Jimmy Buffett, Ziggy Marley, and Lord Huron (with whom Chesney recuts “Ends of the Earth,” a wistful serenade that originally appeared on the band’s 2012 album, ).