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meller

American  
[mel-er] / ˈmɛl ər /

noun

Theater Slang.
  1. melodrama.


Etymology

Origin of meller

By shortening and alteration

Example Sentences

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As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he made a hit in a cheap meller, he played nothing else for a decade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Winters of frost it took to break up that ground, and sun and rain to meller it, and then't was a hatful of soil to a cartful of stone.

From The Desert and the Sown by Foote, Mary Hallock

Sez I, "Somehow, you look more meller and happy."

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de

My head's all right, an' my heart's meller, But I 'm a easy-goin' feller.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean