chansonnette

Borrowed from French chansonnette, from chanson (“song”) + -ette (feminine form of -et (diminutive suffix)).

chansonnette (plural chansonnettes)

1. A little song.
   • 1876, William Black, “The Laurels at Wombley Flat”, in Madcap Violet. […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 57:

     […] Violet had a suspicion that these pretty little chansonettes that he sang, with their tears and roses, and nights profound, were of his own composition.

• chansonette

Old French chançonete, from chanson +‎ -ette

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.sɔ.nɛt/

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chansonnette f (plural chansonnettes)

1. (singing) chansonnette

• “chansonnette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.