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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And the good old soul advanced with a warm, meller smile on his face, and sez: “How do you do, Sister Arvilly.”

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

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

It ain't for me to tell now uv the meller sweetness uv their courtin' time; I could n't do it if I tried.

From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene

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