feuil|le|ton

feuil|le|ton
feuil|le|ton «fer yuh tn», noun.
1. a part of one or more pages of a newspaper containing miscellaneous articles, serial stories, verse, and the like. Originally, feuilletons of French and other European newspapers appeared at the bottom of the page, marked off from the rest of the page by a rule.
2. an article or other work, especially a part of a serial story, printed in the feuilleton.
3. a light, informal essay or similar journalistic writing: »

His bent, in the undergraduate years, was poetic, and he had issued feuilletons on Villon and Edwin Arlington Robinson (New Yorker).

╂[< French feuilleton < feuillet (diminutive) feuille leaf, sheet]

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