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opéra bouffe

[ op-er-uh boof, op-ruh; French aw-pey-ra boof ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural o·pé·ra bouffes, o·pé·ras bouffe, French o·pé·ras bouffes [aw-pey-, r, a, , boof].

opéra bouffe

/ ɔpera buf; ˈɒpərə ˈbuːf /

Borrowed into English from French around 1865–70

from French: comic opera

Such an appeal to Irving's sympathy and chivalry was enough to deprive the situation of its quality of opéra-bouffe.

It was all so like a situation out of an opéra bouffe of Offenbach.

She sang as she did it—a gay, shrill air from some opéra bouffe.

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