noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a funeral elegy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise.
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Gillian Wearing presents an elegy to one of life's losers.
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Mind out! elegy A mournful poem.
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The sonnet is an emotional elegy , and the tone is mournful.
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West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours, yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.
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What begins as a satiric novel of ideas ends as a surprisingly moving elegy .
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Yet that tiny elegy speaks forward, too, perhaps, to another vanished relatedness, between Martin and his first wife.