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operette|ɒpəˈrɛt|
Also ‖ opérette |ɔperɛt|.
English (with accent, French) form of operetta. Also transf.
1890E. Dowson Let. 19 May (1967) 149 Playing snatches of opérette—Gilbert & Sullivan, Sultan of Mocha etc. 1928Observer 15 Apr. 21/2 Few operettes launched on the public nowadays can compare with the delicious music of Pongrác Kacsoh. 1935Discovery July 211/2 The Estonians have some charming ‘operettes’, too, which..without being heavy have much more in them than our average musical comedies. 1938N. Coward (title) Operette. 1961Times 7 Mar. 8/4 On the borderline between opera bouffe and opérette. 1977Listener 30 June 867/1 Joan Aiken's Lost Movement, an entirely enjoyable story, offers..a pretty and melodramatic operette. |