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‖ Palais Royal|palɛ rwajal|
The name of a Parisian theatre used attrib. to designate a type of indelicate farce said to be typical of this theatre.
1877Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 21 Apr. 109/1 In my remarks about Pink Dominos..I alluded to the inevitable comparison that must be made between that piece and the other Palais Royal adaptations. Ibid. 20 Oct. 109/2, I consider the libretti of three-fourths of the French opéras-bouffes which have been translated..into English, practically and palpably cynical, and they are indecent withal. I may say the same of some Palais Royal pieces, mightily popular amongst us. 1951N. Mitford Blessing ii. v. 195 What a curious thing—intrigues and misunderstandings, just like a Palais Royal farce. 1967Oxf. Compan. Theatre (ed. 3) 715/1 In England the term ‘Palais-Royal farce’ was applied to the broad suggestiveness of such productions as the The Pink Dominos (1877) and The Girl from Maxim's (1902). |