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Soubrette

noun
1.
A pert or flirtatious young girl.
2.
A minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy.





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"Soubrette" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cynthia, with a horrified glance in the mirror, "I look more like a soubrette than ...
— When Patty Went to College • Jean Webster
... herself in the midst of an opulence of her own she was able to practice the natural insolence of it. She knew her eighteenth century, and the tales of its great lords and all their belongings, by heart. This back-stairs erudition gave to her conversation a flavor of "oeil-de-boeuf"; her soubrette gossip passed muster for courtly wit. Morally, the mayoress was, if you wish to say so, tinsel; but to savages paste diamonds are ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Soubrette" :   minor role, missy, girl, bit part, miss, young woman, young lady, fille


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