melodrame

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English

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Etymology

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From French mélodrame.

Noun

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melodrame (countable and uncountable, plural melodrames)

  1. Obsolete form of melodrama.
    • 1828, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 128:
      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.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 214:
      The Englishwoman diffuses over a whole day what the French reserves for a few hours. Effect there is the summing up. In great, as in little things, the French are a nation of actors—life is to them a great melodrame.

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