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Definition of Soubrettes
1. soubrette [n] - See also: soubrette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soubrettes
Literary usage of Soubrettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal (1901)
"The soubrettes teach girls to deceive their parents, wards to cajole their ...
Then do not girls learn at the theatre to choose as confidantes soubrettes, ..."
2. Passion and Criminality: A Legal and Literary Study by Louis Proal, Alfred Richard Allinson (1905)
"The soubrettes teach girls to deceive their parents, wards to cajole their ...
Then do not girls learn at the theatre to choose as confidantes soubrettes, ..."
3. Gossip from Paris During the Second Empire: Correspondence (1864-1869) of by Anthony B. North Peat (1903)
"... and Oscar's explanatory dialogue, excites shouts of merriment among the
laughter-loving soubrettes who frequent Les Folies Marigny. September 2&(h. ..."
4. The Sportsman in Canada by Frederic Tolfrey (1845)
"leading female characters ; and, in addition to the pretty Prima Donna, we secured
the services of a couple of the soubrettes, so that our company was a ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"Clairon soon spurned at her feet the soubrettes and songstresses of her first
engagement. She became a noble, classical actress. ..."
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