📚 noun • entry_id 56922
villancico
/ˌviːjanˈsiːkəʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
villancico
A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.
The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in w…
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