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commedie dell'arte

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com⋅me⋅dia dell'ar⋅te

  [kuh-mey-dee-uh del-ahr-tee; It. kawm-me-dyah del-lahr-te]
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–noun, plural com⋅me⋅di⋅a dell'ar⋅tes, com⋅me⋅di⋅as dell'ar⋅te, Italian. com⋅me⋅die dell'ar⋅te  [kawm-me-dye del-lahr-te] .
Italian popular comedy, developed chiefly during the 16th–18th centuries, in which masked entertainers improvised from a plot outline based on themes associated with stock characters and situations.
Origin:
1875–80; < It: lit., comedy of art
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commedia dell''arte 
1877, from It., lit. "comedy of art."
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