novellas

Variant of novella

novella definition

no·vella (nō vel′ə)

noun pl. novellas -·las or novelle -·le (-ē)

  1. a short prose narrative, usually with a moral and often satirical, as any of the tales in Boccaccio's Decameron
  2. short novel

Etymology: It: see novel,

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