novelette

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Along with his son, Mr. Barrett is survived by his wife, Angela; two other sons, Floyd and Kevin; three daughters, Novelette Lindsay, Shadona Barrett and Ramona Barrett; and his sisters, Narma, Cherry and Winsome Barrett.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Most impressive official blessing on the novelette was pronounced last week when Publishers Little, Brown offered the winner and four runners-up, culled from 1,340 contestants, in their $2,500 Novelette Contest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last number of the suite is a quaint Novelette.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Hence the Fairy Tale is prophetic and has supernatural beings, the Novelette is retrospective, giving the experiences of life without supernatural agencies.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

"And now my favourite piece of all," she said; and she at once began the "Second Novelette," the finest of the eight, but seldom played in public.

From Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) by Harraden, Beatrice