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Definition of: elegy
(el′ə·jē) noun plural ·gies
1. A funeral song.
2. A meditative poem with sorrowful theme.
3. A classical poem written in elegiac verse. [<F élégie <L elegia <Gk. elegeia <elegos a song]
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