villanel

English

Etymology

See villanelle.

Noun

villanel (plural villanels)

1. (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

References

“villanel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.