Today's Word "aubade"
A song or poem greeting the dawn
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aubade \oh-BAHD\ (noun) - A song or poem greeting the dawn; also, a composition suggestive of morning.
"She sang the first aubade welcoming the sun, then turned westward and moved into the second one, the song which sang the daystar farewell." -- Eliszbeth Haydon, 'Elegy for a Lost Star'
Aubade comes from the French, from aube, dawn + the noun suffix -ade: aube ultimately derives from Latin albus, white, pale, as in "alba lux," the "pale light" of dawn.