tiralee
(ˈtɪrəliː)
Also 6 tireli, 7 tirlery.
[Echoic. Cf. OF. turelu a comic or burlesque refrain, and see tirra-lirra.]
a. The note of the lark; = tirra-lirra. b. A representation of a bugle note or cadence.
| 1596 C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 24 Even as the Larke..Mounteth her basinetted head on high,..Quav'ring full quaintlie forth her Tireli. ? c 1600 in E.E. Lyrics (1907) 255 Tirlery lorpin, the laverock sang. 1847 M. Howitt Ballads 130 And the bugles blew with a ‘tira lee’! As they came by the way. |