romaunt

[ roh-mahnt, -mawnt ]

/ roʊˈmɑnt, -ˈmɔnt /

a romantic tale or poem; romance.

Origin of romaunt

1520–30; < Anglo-French, variant of Old French romant romance¹

Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt.

Burlesques |William Makepeace Thackeray
Of this remainder, if we include The Romaunt of the Rose, all but three are unhesitatingly accepted by scholars.

Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales |Geoffrey Chaucer
The fact that religion lies in the spirit rather than the observance is very clearly stated in the Romaunt of the Rose, ll.

Chaucer and His Times |Grace E. Hadow
Chaucer's "Romaunt of the Rose" describes for us the movement of the "karole," danced on the "grene gras" in the spring days.

Games and Songs of American Children |Various

In the Romaunt of the Rose a little square garden is described, with its beds of flowers, its orchard-trees.

Joyous Gard |Arthur Christopher Benson

romaunt

/ (rəˈmɔːnt) /

archaic a verse romance

C16: from Old French; see romantic