Chansonnette

_En attendant_ she rattled off a sparkling French _chansonnette_ with such _élan_ that every man in the room, musical or otherwise, was soon round the piano. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)

Then a very large woman warbles a French _chansonnette_ in the tiniest, most flute-like of voices; and then ---- ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)

I often sang for her, and she liked everything I sang -- Italian stornelli, old-fashioned American negro songs, and even the very light modern French chansonnette, when there was any melody in them. ❋ Mary Alsop King Waddington (N/A)

She sang a little chansonnette, which, just then, half Europe was humming, -- it occurred in an opera which they were acting at one of the ❋ Richard Marsh (N/A)

Montaigne praised the _naïveté_ of the village carols; and Malherbe preferred a rustic _chansonnette_ to all the poems of Ronsard. ❋ Various (N/A)

And the flapjacks were not served _à la chansonnette_ that night. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)

Frank's _gâteaux à la chansonnette_ were things of beauty and therefore joys forever. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)

Theodora hummed to herself a glad little _chansonnette_ as she changed her breakfast negligee for the freshest and loveliest of her spring frocks. ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)

Cloud and azure sky, tree tops and clover, the tiny rivulet dancing through deep grasses, the wind furrowing the fields, all these she put into her _chansonnette de laveuse_. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Duprèz hummed a verse of a French _chansonnette_ under his breath and smiled. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

This diplomat of the chansonnette evoked his pity. ❋ Jules Claretie (1876)

Then du Maurier would sing the French "romance" or the English song, or he would "dire la chansonnette," and what with his sympathetic tenor and his intuitive knowledge of music, he seemed to be able to express more than many who had had the advantage of a musical training. ❋ Felix Moscheles (1875)

a stupid but obscene vaudeville piece, and vicious topical songs were sung (a thunder of applause); an animated chansonnette-singer screeched and pulled about with her naked, excessively whitened shoulders, and winked with her exaggeratedly painted eyes; a woman acrobat, raising her legs, attired in pink tights, above her head, was dancing on her hands. ❋ Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub (1895)