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- noun Plural form of
historiette .
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Examples
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The long romance is followed by thirteen historiettes all apparently historical: compare
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This quasi-historical fiction is followed hy a succession of fabliaux, novelle and historiettes which fill the rest of the vol.iv. and the whole of vol.v. till we reach the terminal story, The
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The long Crusading Romance is relieved by a sequence of sixteen fabliaux, partly historiettes of men and beasts and partly apologues proper — a subject already noticed.
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Before the Revolution, Voltaire was as popular in England as in the rest of Europe; his powers as highly admired, and his short _historiettes_ as much quoted: their wit being considered a sufficient counterbalance of their coarseness.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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His facetiæ, his historiettes, his Oriental tales, reunited later (at least in part) with the works of the Comte de Caylus, and with the libertine tales of
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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We would not, however, lose their wigs and smiles for a world of historiettes.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various
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Two of these, _Mina de Wangel_ and _Le Philtre_, are _historiettes_ of the passion which is absent from
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The bulk of it, indeed, consists of romanticised _histoires_ or historiettes (the narrator calls them "anecdotes") of the sad and famous fates of two
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made Queen Margaret of Navarre or even the great Elizabeth of England hide behind a handkerchief, but nobody hid here, but only laughed -- howled, you may say.
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Ladies answered back with historiettes that would almost have made
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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