soubrette
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- noun A saucy, coquettish, intriguing maidservant in comedies or comic opera.
- noun An actress or a singer taking such a part.
- 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 âpug, his duck, his bird.â — The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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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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- 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)/
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