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featurettes

featurettes is the plural of featurette.

Meaning of featurette

Noun

featurette (plural featurettes)

  1. A relatively short feature film.
    • The 1950 production program of the RD-DR Corporation (Reader's Digest-deRochemont) has been expanded to include six hour-length “featurettes” in addition to two longer pictures, it was announced yesterday by Louis de Rochemont, the producer.1949 September 24, “8 Films in '50 Set by De Rochemont”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. A short film of bonus material, companion to the main feature, frequently part of additional material in a home video release on LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-Ray.
    • With DVDs steadily joining VHS cassettes as extinct technology, what has become of the fun, insightful mixed bag that movie fans came to know as bonus features — the audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternate endings?2018 April 6, Fabrice Robinet, “Oh for the Days of the Making-Of Featurette — Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about featurettes

What is featurettes the plural of?
Featurettes is the plural of featurette.

Words near featurettes in the dictionary

  1. featurephone
  2. featurephones
  3. features
  4. featuresome
  5. featurette
  6. featurettes
  7. featuretype
  8. featuretypes
  9. featurewise
  10. featuring
  11. featurings

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