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Villanelle vs Vaudeville - What's the difference?

villanelle | vaudeville |

As nouns the difference between villanelle and vaudeville

is that villanelle is (poetry) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes while vaudeville is (historical|uncountable) a style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in north america from the 1880s through the 1920s.

villanelle

English

(wikipedia villanelle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (poetry) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.

    • Derived terms

    * villanellist

    vaudeville

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia vaudeville)
  • (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
  • (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Ben Brantley, title=Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes. }}

    Synonyms

    * music hall (British)

    Derived terms

    * vaudevillian (noun)