burletta

bur·let·ta

[ber-let-uh]
noun Theater.
(in the 18th and 19th centuries) a musical drama containing rhymed lyrics and resembling comic opera or a comic play containing songs.

Origin:
1740–50; < Italian, equivalent to burl(a) jest (see burlesque) + -etta -ette

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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