Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short history or story; a tale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Historical narration on a small scale; a brief recital; a story.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A short
history ortale .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“The Fair Persian,” a brightly written historiette with not a few touches of true humour.
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The editor was proportionably civil to him, and he was encouraged to commence a third historiette.
The Three Clerks 2004
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Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French.
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It would be easy to lengthen out our historiette into one of circumstantial evidence, trial, condemnation, and ultimate discovery; but we have preferred telling it as it really happened.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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Bagdad, "a fairy tale --" Lady Lucy's Petition, "an historiette --" the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 Various
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If a case came before an advocate that gave any scope for his talents as a pamphleteer, his opinion immediately took the shape of a little _historiette_, and in a few days was in print.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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ANECDOTE, _f. _, petit fait historique; historiette.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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"The Royal Sufferer," by Mrs. Hofland, follows, and gives the misfortunes of Prince Arthur in an interesting historiette.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 395, October 24, 1829 Various
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Donnez votre idée de la morale de cette historiette.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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And last in our enumeration, though first in our liking, are the following by the editor: -- Invocation to the Echo of a Sea Shell; King Pedro's Revenge, with a well written historiette; the Youngling of the Flock, full of tenderness and parental affection; and some Stanzas, for our admiration of which we have not an epithet at hand, so we give the original.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various
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