Definition of "villancico" [villancico]

• A kind of song, akin to the madrigal, popular in Spain in the fifteenth century, consisting of seven-lined stanzas. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It's a "villancico", a courtly development of a rustic style."
• "The "villancico" survives, but only as this one, relating to the Nativity."
• "En el contexto del proprio Cancionero de la Colombina, el motivo melódico de Urrede es utilizado por Belmonte como recurso constructivo en la parte del tenor de su villancico Pues mi dicha."