单词 | storyette |
释义 | storyetten. A short or trifling story; (sometimes spec.) = short short story at short adj. 8b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > novelette or short story > very short story storyette1834 short short story1929 1834 Morning Post 27 Nov. 3/5 ‘My Second Love’, by Leitch Ritchie, Esq., is a spirited, beautiful storiette. 1880 Liverpool Mercury 4 Dec. 8/3 The Family Paper..containing two serial stories of absorbing interest..; also a storyette, and a series of articles. 1897 Athenæum 20 Nov. 689/3 A well-established Syndicate requires storiettes of 1,200 to 1,500 words each. 1907 F. T. Bullen Advance Austral. xxiv. 261 There are..four serial stories..twelve short stories, and about fifty storyettes. 1962 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 245 Erotic miscellanies..mixing together jokes, erotic storiettes, ambiguously worded letters, doggerel pornographica, [etc.]. 2011 Western Mail (Nexis) 14 Jan. 27 Brydon plays all the characters..in a series of storyettes about a fictional breakfast TV anchor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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