chansonette

American  

[shahn-saw-net, shan-suh-net] / ʃɑ̃ sɔˈnɛt, ˌʃæn səˈnɛt /

noun

French.

• chansonettes
  plural

1. a little song; ditty.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• chansonettes
  plural

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Example Sentences

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chansonette chansonettes

For him Sheridan would flash his best bon-mot, and Theodore Hook play his most practical joke, his swiftest chansonette.

From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm

He found the instrument a good deal out of tune; but began, after a minute's pause, a forgotten chansonette, from "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge."

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope

She laughed and hummed a chansonette and filled Raggles's shoes with ice-cold water.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

Maryette, apparently unconscious of his presence, continued to soap and scrub and slap her wash, singing in her clear, untrained voice of a child the chansonette she had made that morning.

From Barbarians by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

She laughed and now John knew that it was she whom he had heard singing the chansonette in that low murmuring tone.

From The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I sing chansonettes to the moon; I whistle operas; I talk to my horse; he takes no notice; I rally him upon his temper, and he swears madly at me.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

Her fame as a composer rests on a number of attractive romances and chansonettes, of which an extensive collection was published in Paris.

From Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson

He reached the parlor window just too late to hear the last of a group of Spanish chansonettes rendered in the original tongue by Miss Netta Podger, who had spent the summer abroad.

From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge

Besides the question was mainly in this, that that history of the baron and the famous singer of chansonettes did not concern her in any way.

From The Argonauts by Jeremiah Curtin

If a scandal happened, as in the loathsome thirty-third story of the “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,” all the wits must make rondels and chansonettes, which they would hand from one to another with an unmanly sneer.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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