villanel
English
Etymology
See villanelle.
Noun
villanel (plural villanels)
- (obsolete) A ballad.
- 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
- c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne
References
villanel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913