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語源

From French opéra bouffe.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɒp(ə)ɹəˈbuːf/

名詞

opera bouffe (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 operas bouffes)

1. (often attributive) A type of French comic opera, typified by everyday characters and ludicrous situations. [from 19th c.]
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 144:

     He sang solos from "La Grande Duchesse," and many other opera-bouffe songs, with great taste and verve.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 176:

     There was one moment of opéra bouffe when the plump Biaggi and two other plotters were trapped in an antique Parisian lift between floors on the way to a top-level and secret meeting.