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novelle

[noh-vel-uh]

no·vel·la

[noh-vel-uh]
noun, plural -vel·las, -vel·le [-vel-ee, -vel-ey] .
1.
a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
2.
a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel.

Origin:
1900–05; < Italian; see novel1
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