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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



... the unwonted quiet. But they were pleasant, careless folk, he concluded always. They permitted him to spend his money, but he was quite sure they would spend it as freely as he if they had it. More than one appreciative soubrette, met under such circumstances, was subsequently enabled to laud the sureness of his taste in jewels,—he cared little for anything but large diamonds, it transpired. It was a feeling tribute paid to his munificence by one of these in converse with a sister ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson


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


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