Lines written in country house introducing new fashion magazine (10)

Times Cryptic #28700 | 15 Across | 2023-09-05
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

VILLA (country house), N (new), ELLE (fashion magazine). I knew this word only as the name of the psychopathic assassin played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, but SOED defines it as a usually pastoral or lyric poem consisting normally of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout and some lines repeated. So now we know.

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