canzonet
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Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
"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
Presently a single voice rose, singing an exquisite little French canzonet, the refrain of which was a passionate repetition of the word "Amie."
From Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott
This was the meaning of last night's canzonet!
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
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