Meanings
nounvillanel (plural villanels)
plural villanels
- obsoleteA 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
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