opera bouffe
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He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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His tastes led more in the direction of the opera bouffe "and he delighted in Offenbach because he said that the operas made him laugh."
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On Tiepolo's canvases, every scene became a tableau as lively as any opera bouffe, his every room a stage across which strutted the likes of Orpheus, Eurydice, Scipio, Antony and Cleopatra.
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Fully conscious of the political innocence of his conduct, he welcomed this new diversion and, humming the latest opera bouffe air, he dressed in his best with a posy in his lapel.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver
