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villanel

villanel noun: a ballad.

Noun

villanel (plural villanels)

  1. (obsolete) A ballad.
    • 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 sciencec. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne

Forms of villanel

pluralvillanels

Origin of villanel

See villanelle.

Questions about villanel

What does villanel mean?
Villanel means a ballad.
What part of speech is villanel?
Villanel is a noun.
What is the plural of villanel?
The plural of villanel is villanels.

Words near villanel in the dictionary

  1. villanages
  2. villancico
  3. villancicos
  4. Villaneda
  5. Villanedas
  6. villanel
  7. villanella
  8. villanellas
  9. villanelle
  10. villanelles
  11. villanellist

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