canzonet
Example Sentences
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In lighter vein is the canzonet to the lady who swore by her eyes, a custom which was rather common according to the tales of chivalry so popular shortly before this time.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
"Much better," observed Joungevello, the minstrel; "I shall write a canzonet in her praise, and sing it before the king."
From Windsor Castle by William Harrison Ainsworth
It was not one of the plaintive lays of his own country, but a lively, blithe Italian canzonet, with trills that sounded like the merry warbling of a lark.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.
From Canterbury Pieces by Samuel Butler
The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
