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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 Partridge, Edward Bellamy

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 Curtin, Jeremiah

In the intervals of such planning Gabrielle showed the new cousin her favourite haunts in the garden and orchard, whilst he taught her charming chansonettes to sing to the accompaniment of her guitar.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis