Soubrette

Quick meaning: Soubrette is a noun meaning A female attendant or servant, especially one who is cheeky or mischievous, often featuring in theatrical comedies.

Meaning

A female attendant or servant, especially one who is cheeky or mischievous, often featuring in theatrical comedies.

Example Sentences

And then too it was exhilarating to see the baron come sailing in with a pair of soubrettes on his arm—each time a different pair.

The servants in the hall tonight are whitely-wigged black slaves in livery of a certain grade of satin and refinement of lace,– black Major-domos and black Soubrettes.

At present I have only a soubrette's part, with an apron and pockets, and a ballad; but, as I said before, luck's all in this world, and I have every requisite for being lucky.

This version of the fragile, yet touching story accents the romance and courtship of the schoolmaster, properly called Mr. Chipping, and the music hall soubrette he falls in love with while vacationing in Pompeii.

Word Forms

• soubrettes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sutleress, chanteuse, operetta, suitress, studette, barmaid.

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