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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  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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  1. from French soubrette, feminine of Old French soubret, sober, thoughtful, sly, cunning, diminutive of soubre, sobre, sober: see sober.
 

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