chansonette
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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 Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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 Henry, O.
Previously, however, in case any of the ladies should like something sentimental, we beg leave to present them with as nice a little chansonette as ever was transcribed into an album.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
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