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opera bouffe

noun as in comic opera

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Such an appeal to Irving's sympathy and chivalry was enough to deprive the situation of its quality of opéra-bouffe.

It was all so like a situation out of an opéra bouffe of Offenbach.

She sang as she did it—a gay, shrill air from some opéra bouffe.

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