historiette
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Examples
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The editor was proportionably civil to him, and he was encouraged to commence a third historiette.
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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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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
Note
The word 'historiette' comes from a French word meaning 'little history'.
