A short film or article; something that is a smaller or lighter version of a feature presentation.
From feature plus the suffix -ette (from French, meaning 'small' or 'miniature'), creating a word for something that is a reduced or lesser version of a full feature.
Movie studios invented 'featurette' in the 1920s to describe short films shown before main features, and the term migrated to publishing and now to online content—it's how we describe those bonus videos and short articles.
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