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villanel

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A ballad.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne she may come into comparison with the greatest beauty of poetry perfected by art: as we see in our Gascon villanels and the songs that are brought us from nations that have no knowledge of any manner of science

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History

Etymology

See villanelle.