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burletta

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bur⋅let⋅ta

  [ber-let-uh]
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–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; < It, equiv. to burl(a) jest (see burlesque ) + -etta -ette
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