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villancicos

villancicos is the plural of villancico.

Meaning of villancico

Noun

villancico (plural villancicos)

  1. A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.
    • The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza)...2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447

Questions about villancicos

What is villancicos the plural of?
Villancicos is the plural of villancico.

Words near villancicos in the dictionary

  1. villan
  2. Villanacaob
  3. villanage
  4. villanages
  5. villancico
  6. villancicos
  7. Villaneda
  8. Villanedas
  9. villanel
  10. villanella
  11. villanellas

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