noun
also nov·el·et |nävə|let
( -s )
1.
a. : a brief novel or long short story
is also buying novelettes of around 15,000 words — Iris Litt
all of it is short; nothing exceeding novelette length — Richard Sullivan
b. Britain : a light usually sentimental romantic novel
was a great reader of novelettes and had romantic ideas — Flora Thompson
weeping over a sentimental novelette — F.M.Ford
2.
[German novellette, from novelle novel (from Italian novella ) + -ette — more at novella ]
: a romantic piano piece of free form characteristically containing a number of contrasting sections