Definitions for soubrettes

soubrettes sou·brette

Spelling: [soo-bret]
IPA: /suˈbrɛt/

Soubrettes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 503 anagrams from letters in soubrettes (beeorssttu).

Definitions for soubrettes

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 soubrettes

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 soubrettes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Word Value for soubrettes
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