Word Meanings - VILLANEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A ballad. Cotton.

Related words: (words related to VILLANEL)

• BALLADE
  A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• BALLADRY
  Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
• COTTONWOOD
  An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• COTTONSEED MEAL
  A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
• COTTONOUS
  Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
• BALLADER
  A writer of ballads.
• COTTON
  and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes
• COTTONWEED
  See CUDWEED
• COTTON STATE
  Alabama; -- a nickname.
• BALLAD
  A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas. (more info) ballada a dancing song, fr. ballare to dance; cf. It. ballata. See 2d
• COTTONTAIL
  The American wood rabbit ; -- also called Molly cottontail.
• COTTON SEED; COTTONSEED
  The seed of the cotton plant.
• BALLAD MONGER
  A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.
• COTTONSEED OIL
  A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure . and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.
• GUNCOTTON
  See GUN