villanella
Americannoun
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villanelle
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of villanella
1590–1600; < Italian, feminine of villanello rural, rustic, equivalent to villan ( o ) peasant, boor ( see villain) + -ello -ish
Example Sentences
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The confines of a structure make your brain work in a different way: How do I get this idea across in a sonnet or a villanelle?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
For my first experiment, I had the A.I. write a villanelle, a rather difficult poetic form, about the death of a pet gerbil.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2022
We love a good sonnet, acrostic or villanelle.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2022
She’d fought to master the loss, writing seventeen quickly successive drafts of an exactingly structured villanelle, a form with origins in the French Baroque.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017
At the moment, he was attempting a villanelle, a poetic form more complex than even the most complicated dance step.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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