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Music performed in the serene—i.e. in the open air at eventide (Latin, sereʹnum, whence the French sérénade and Italian serenata).
“Or serenate which the starved lover sings
To his proud fair.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 769.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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