canzonet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of canzonet
From the Italian word canzonetta, dating back to 1585–95. See canzone, -ette
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He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motionless and deep in thought.
From The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
I will have a canzonet made, with nothing in it but sirrah; and the burthen shall be, I come.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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
The note to which Byron refers is on the canzonet 'Naö sei quem assella', "Thou hast an eye of tender blue."
From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Ah! who will take the bass parts in my canzonet now, I should like to know?
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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