refrain’

Music Lover's Encyclopedia · 1939 · p. 44

A burden, or stanza, repeated at the end of each new stanza of a song, Re’gal (in G. ra’-gal), régale (ra-gil)s F. 1. Vide REED-ORGAN. Za enty old suffix indicating a reed-stop. 3An obsolete xylophone. Regel (ra’-gél), G. Rule.