Meanings
plural melodrames
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of melodrama.
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.
1828, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 1281 more example
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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214
Origin
- Frenchmélodrame
- Englishmelodrame
From French mélodrame.
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