Vil`la*nel" (?), n. [See Villanelle.] A ballad. [Obs.] Cotton.
||Vil`la*nel"la (?), n.; pl. Villanelle (#). [It., a pretty country
||girl.] (Mus.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
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||Vil`la*nelle" (?), n. [F.] A poem written in tercets with but two
||rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as
||the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at
||the close. E. W. Gosse.
||
Vil`la*nette" (?), n. [Dim. of villa; formed on the analogy of the
French.] A small villa. [R.]
Vil"lan*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Villanized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Villanizing (?).] To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. [R.]
Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's
fame.
Dryden.