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Canzonet

//kanzə(ʊ)ˈnɛt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.

    "Besides what I have said of one of their warlike songs, I have another amorous canzonet, which beginneth in this sence […]."

Etymology

From Italian canzonetta, from canzone (“song”) + -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), from Latin cantiō. Doublet of canzonetta. Cf. canzone.

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