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单词 novelette
释义

noveletten.

Brit. /ˌnɒvəˈlɛt/, /ˌnɒvlˈɛt/, U.S. /ˌnɑvəˈlɛt/
Forms: 1700s– novelette, 1800s nouvellete, 1800s nouvellette, 1800s novellette.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on an Italian lexical item, and partly modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: novel n., -ette suffix.
Etymology: < novel n. + -ette suffix, after Italian novelletta (14th cent.). In sense 2 after German Novellette (1838 in plural, Novelletten , as the title of a musical work by Robert Schumann: see below). Compare French novelette (late 19th cent. in sense 2).German Novellette is itself probably formed after Italian novelletta (see above), with a play on the name of Clara Novello (1818–1908), English soprano. In forms nouvellete , nouvellette after French nouvelle (see novel n.).
1. A story of moderate length having the characteristics of a novel. Now: a short, light, romantic, or sentimental novel (frequently depreciative).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story
novelc1500
novella1677
nouvelle1680
novelette1780
novelet1815
long short story1877
short story1877
conte1891
short1912
long short1929
shorty1934
1780 Goldsmith & Griffiths (title) Novelettes, selected for the use of young ladies and gentlemen.
1814 J. C. Dunlop Hist. Fiction II. vii. 127 The endless variety of tales, or Novelettes,..which form so popular and so extensive a branch of Italian literature.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 835 As novels and nouvellettes go at present, the story is not particularly valuable.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiii. 244 The novelette and poem for the young lady, and the tale for the child.
1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 128 The tales might, perhaps with propriety, be termed nouvelletes, or little novels.
1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 66 ‘You want to be the hero of a romance and to get into the papers.’.. The Man ‘Oh, rot! do you think I read novelettes?’
1967 A. Burgess Novel Now i. 16 We're unwilling to dignify books of, say, fifty thousand words and under with the title of novel, preferring to use the Italian term novella (‘novelette’ disparages not only length but content).
1988 ‘R. Deacon’ Spyclopaedia 83 Backhouse established himself..as the author of a pornographic novelette, and..as a British secret agent.
2. Music. A free-form musical composition (see quot. 1893-7). rare. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > keyboard music > on piano
pianoforte concerto1837
pianoforte sonata1838
finger passage1847
piano concerto1851
piano part1854
piano sonata1859
chop-sticks1893
novelette1893
five-finger exercise1903
piano rag1922
1893–7 J. S. Shedlock tr. K. W. J. H. Riemann Dict. Music Novelette, a term probably first used by Schumann for pianoforte pieces of free form and containing a considerable number of themes.
1894 Times 24 Nov. 7/2 She played as her solos Schumann's novelette in E major [etc.].

Derivatives

noveˈletter n. = novelettist n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story > writer of
story writer1747
conteur1857
novelettist1883
noveletter1907
short-storyist1936
1907 N.E.D. at Novelette Noveletter.
noveˈlettist n. a writer of novelettes.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story > writer of
story writer1747
conteur1857
novelettist1883
noveletter1907
short-storyist1936
1883 D. C. Murray Hearts III. xxxii. 210 Novelists and novelettists, poets and poetasters, are thick about her.
1904 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 27 The plot of it was just that which even our worst novelettists have outgrown.
1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 5 June A fluffy nonagenarian novelettist who disdains pre-marital sex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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