[ˈmadrɪɡl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint
(e.g: he was acknowledged as a leading composer of madrigals)


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Origin:
from Italian madrigale (from medieval Latin carmen matricale ‘simple song’), from matricalis ‘maternal or primitive’, from matrix ‘womb’