Melodrame

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of melodrama. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames."

Example

More examples

"Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames."

Etymology

From French mélodrame.

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