[Prov., from pa. pple. of tornar to turn.] An envoy of three lines, in which the verse-endings of all the preceding stanzas recur. (Cf. Littré, Tornade, se dit, dans les chansons provençales, de la ritournelle.]
1823. Roscoe, Sismondi’s Lit. Eur. (1846), I. vi. 173. The songs are usually in seven stanzas, followed by an envoy, which he calls a tornada.
1874. Breymann, in Ess. Owens Coll. Manch., xi. 384. The Troubadours borrowed from the Saracens several of their poetical forms as, for instance, the Tornada.
1880. [see ENVOY sb.1 1].
