soubrette
IPA: sˈaʊbrˈɛt
noun
- A female attendant or servant, especially one who is cheeky or mischievous, often featuring in theatrical comedies.
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Examples of "soubrette" in Sentences
- Principal soubrette and later years.
- She is a indeed a soubrette I believe.
- She often played the part of soubrette.
- She lives in the world of the soubrette.
- Of course a soubrette is a lighter voice.
- Larkin excelled at comical roles as a soubrette.
- She could be agrued into the soubrette category.
- She shouldn't be considered a soubrette however.
- This was the term given soubrette roles at the time.
- Barbara Bonney would be an example of a real soubrette.
- In classical music and opera, the term soubrette refers to both a soprano voice type and a particular type of opera role.
- A moment later, a waiting-woman, of middle age, and too well trained to dress like a "soubrette" of comedy, opened the door to him.
- There was in Candy the femme fatale, the southern belle, the damsel in distress, the man-in-a-dress, the soubrette, the coquette, the vamp, the lady, and the tramp.
- They married the following year and she became the leading lady and soubrette in the Williams and Walker Company, soon after becoming famous in her own right as a performer of the Cakewalk.
- The role of the anguished femme fatale could have been made for the foxy, soubrette-ish Vallo, while Singleton's portrayal of the devoted, despairing Moon Dog is at once restrained and touching.
- Smoke is semi-gallantly seeking to help Lucille Arral, "the singing soubrette of the tiny stock company that performed nightly at the Palace Opera House," and to make a fast buck while putting some life into a moribund Dawson.
- In theatre, the term soubrette describes a comedy character who is vain and girlish, mischievous, lighthearted, coquettish and gossipy--often a chambermaid or confidante of the ingenue, she often displays a flirtatious or even sexually aggressive nature.
- The cabin boy in question, is on one of the bettor's yacht headed for Honolulu and when "he" falls overboard and is helped back on deck, is discovered by the yachtsman to be a girl, "a chit of a child" of 16, an orphan and "a soubrette of no mean ability."
- The Chevalier Cocona, who had the misfortune to be suffering from a venereal disease, gave me up his mistress, a pretty little 'soubrette'; but in spite of the evidence of my own eyes, and in spite of the assurances she gave me, I could not make up my mind to have her, and my fear made me leave her untouched.