chantefable

[shahnt-fah-bl^uh]

noun

plural

chantefables 

1. (in medieval French literature) a prose narrative interspersed with verse.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chantefable¹

From French; chant, fable

Example Sentences

But in 1891 M. Mockel, who must then have been very youthful, published a poem, entitled Chantefable, which was enough to inspire great hopes of his future among not a few judicious readers.

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Mockel is a learned musician; of his two volumes of verse Chantefable un peu na�ve and Clart�s contain musical notations of rhythms.

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And this little chantefable, as it is aptly called, of Aucassin et Nicolette, is so nearly Proven�al that Provence has claimed it; it lies on the borderland between the manner of the troubadours and that of the trouv�res.

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