burletta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of burletta
1740–50; < Italian, equivalent to burl ( a ) jest ( see burlesque) + -etta -ette
Example Sentences
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Suppose me, for once, a burletta projector, Who attempts a mock musical scrap of a lecture.
From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
What were then called the "burletta houses" were permitted performances of dancing, singing, tumbling, juggling—anything, indeed, but speech unaccompanied by music.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas)
A versatile dramatic poet is grim Destiny, making with equal facility tragedy, farce, burletta, masque or mystery.
From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison
This proving a success was immediately followed by a burletta, entitled The Opera of Operas, based on Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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