rescue opera
noun
An opera at the end of which the hero or heroine is rescued from imprisonment, natural catastrophe, etc., by some heroic action.
Origin
1940s. After German Rettungsoper.
- Mithraist
- Mithraistic
- diametric
- diametrical
- diametrically
- diamine
- diamond
- diamond anniversary
- diamondback
- diamondback moth
- diamondback rattlesnake
- diamondback terrapin
- diamond-bird
- diamond-cut
- diamond cut diamond
- Diamond Head
- diamondiferous
- diamond in the rough
- diamond jubilee
- Diamond, Neil
- diamond plate
- diamond python
- diamond rattlesnake
- Diamond State
- diamond wedding