Definitions for soubrette

soubrette sou·brette

Spelling: [soo-bret]
IPA: /suˈbrɛt/

Soubrette is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 383 anagrams from letters in soubrette (beeorsttu).

Definitions for soubrette

noun

  1. a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
  2. an actress playing such a role.
  3. any lively or pert young woman.

Origin of soubrette

1745-55; French: lady's maid Provençal soubreto, derivative of soubret affected, ultimately derivative of Old Provençal sobrar Latin superāre to be above

Examples for soubrette

That a soubrette is always fifteen or twenty years older than she looks.

In the case of the soubrette, dramatic instinct is limited in its field.

At the best it is only fitted for a soubrette and her lover in the ultime parti.

She had chameleon hair, and her poise was that of a soubrette.

But he is carrying on dreadfully with a soubrette in New York.

"Oh, I don't think I'd like to take a soubrette's place," she cried.

Mademoiselle Pauline, exclaimed the soubrette, as if she doubted her ears.

The girls will dance with the two men, the boys with the soubrette.

It was something to replace the nurse of elder comedy by the soubrette.

Dick has announced his engagement to an actress—a soubrette, too, in a farce-comedy.

Word Value for soubrette
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Words with friends

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