no|vel|la

no|vel|la
no|vel|la «noh VEHL uh; Italian noh VEHL lah», noun, plural no|vel|las, Italian no|vel|le «noh VEHL lay».
1. a short story or novelette with a simple plot: »

The title novella depicts an unusual heroine who would be more at home in the medieval world of folk ballads than in the upper Mississippi valley town into which fate…cast her (Saturday Review).

2. a short prose tale, usually moral or satiric, such as one of those in Boccaccio's Decameron.
[< Italian novella; see etym. under novel2 (Cf.novel)]

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