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Webster 1913 Edition


Melodrame

Mel′o-drame

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Noun.
[F.]
Melodrama.

Webster 1828 Edition


Melodrame

MEL'ODRAME

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Noun.
[Gr. a song, and drama.] A dramatic performance in which songs are intermixed.

Definition 2024


melodrame

melodrame

See also: mélodrame

English

Noun

melodrame (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.