soubrette

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  1. noun A saucy, coquettish, intriguing maidservant in comedies or comic opera.
  2. noun An actress or a singer taking such a part.
  3. noun A young woman regarded as flirtatious or frivolous.

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  • As a singing soubrette, daring, versatile, and popular, Miss Harrison had no superiors in her day. —  Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • She had ceased to be in his mind the brilliant and fascinating soubrette, and had become in the silly lover's-Latin, his “pug, his duck, his bird.” —  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
  • That a soubrette is always fifteen or twenty years older than she looks. —  The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
  • Then his affection for a singer and soubrette, —  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
  • a popular soubrette of the day. —  The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
 

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American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from Provençal soubreto, feminine of soubret, conceited, from soubra, to leave aside, from Old Provençal sobrar, to be excessive, from Latin superāre, from super, above; see uper in Indo-European roots.

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/ (so͞o-brĕtˈ)/
ahd pronounces "soubrette"
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