soubrette

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a pert or flirtatious young girl

a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy

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Mais l'absence de Madame a, me semble t-il, relegue au second plan cette imbrication du reel et de l'imaginaire dans le jeu des soubrettes. On ne voit plus la complexite de jeu d'imitation qui essentiel et fondateur de l'oeuvre, de sa portee stylistique et de sa profondeur philosophique.
For Finkel and her fellow Soubrettes Molly Picon and Bessie
Certainly, after reading volumes and volumes of people who sound like John Donne amongst the purple cut-glass tigresses and fur-lined soubrettes, I found it very refreshing to discover, one day in the midst of war, somebody who sounded like a deadly earnest, deeply responsible young California farmer, who was literate, articulate, honest, and locked up for his beliefs.
Indeed, when kissing sounds were heard or soubrettes were yelled at from the galleries, its patrons swerved far from bourgeois mores.
ABT'S roster has always included one or another of these chirpy soubrettes, Junior Mints for the "isn't she cute?" clucks in the audience.
Her long, striking extensions and shapely arms undoubtedly would catch more eyes in a company with fewer spitfires and soubrettes.
"Crosses glitter around the necks of soubrettes, TV personalities, leading models and actresses.
In this mainstream biography, the actress emerges initially as a shallow person--one who denied her own Polish/Jewish birthright in order to present herself as the Frenchiest of soubrettes. Anna rolled her famous goo-goo eyes for decades, bragged about the million dollars she made doing it and all the while dismissed the ambitions of suffragettes and other feminists.
This proto-Disney-era family fairy tale with its slapdash narrative, corny comic songlets and mobs of chubby soubrettes kept the Broadway and touring houses packed for years.
Student A is a coloratura; Students C, D, and F are full lyrics; and Students E and G are light soubrettes. Student B, the only male, is a baritone.
Herbert von Karajan held her up as the exemplar of Mozart singing, in which she excelled as the soubrettes Zerlina, Despina and Susanna.
You might end up with Ingres and his compelling, super-charged reinventions of the female form, or with Bouguereau and his fleshy soubrettes, apparently modeled in soap.
ROME In a season during which the heat has risen on the moral debate about sex and violence on the small screen, and the ratings have sunk on once-popular variety shows peopled with scantily clad soubrettes, Italian television viewers appear suddenly to be hungry for holiness.