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- Italian · borrowed fromcommedia dell'arte
- English todaycommedia dell'arte
Unadapted borrowing from Italian commedia dell'arte (literally “comedy of the art”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
commedia dell'arte
Today it means: An early form of Italian theatre characterised by stock characters in a variety of masks, popular in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century. Full definition →
Italian commedia dell'arte