单词 | novelette |
释义 | noveletten. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 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). < n.1780 |
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