单词 | historiette |
释义 | historietten. A short history or story; an anecdote. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] storya1425 anecdote1718 anecdota1721 nanny-goat1764 historiette1839 nancy story1858 lie1934 a1704 T. Brown Lett. from Dead (new ed.) in Wks. (1707) II. ii. 193 She thus continued her Tragical Historiette. 1786 T. Twining Let. 10 July in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) III. 8 My head is full of the charming little historiette in your father's letter. 1839 New Monthly Mag. 57 351 I..wrote..what I conceived was a very original and amusing historiette. 1899 F. W. Christian Caroline Islands iii. 53 For more minute information he referred me to a chapter in a Spanish historiette published lately in Manilla. 1918 N.Y. Times Current Hist.: European War XIV. 293/1 The only significant data must be found in episodes from the daily life of the people—social historiettes that are more exact than history. 2000 New Republic (Nexis) 16 Oct. 43 I have potted this literary historiette because translations of Villon in our day frequently recapitulate its features without necessarily being conscious of their condition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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