opera bouffe
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In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
From Time Magazine Archive
He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Los Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this matter of Ireland, all this expedition of opera bouffe, took on again a strange dimension when she spoke....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
