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| vil·la·nelle [ vìllə nél ] (plural vil·la·nelles) |
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French poetic form: a 19-line poem, originally French, that uses only two rhymes and consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain. The first and third lines of the first stanza are alternately repeated as a refrain that closes the following stanzas, and are joined as a final couplet of the quatrain.
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| [Late 16th century. Via French< Italian villanella "old rustic (Italian) song" < villano "peasant" < medieval Latin villanus (see villain)] |
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