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ˌserio-ˈcomedy
[f. next.]
A serio-comic piece. Also transf.
1884Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Apr. 4/1 The libretto of ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims’ is no ordinary work;..its story is..told tunefully and gaily, as befits a serio-comedy. 1891M. Williams Later Leaves xix. 226 Nothing will ever come near him in The Roused Lion, which..was serio-comedy. 1929Blunden Nature in Eng. Lit. v. 125 From this serio-comedy of the strawyard the [farmer's] boy raises his face to the setting Sun and..gets to bed. 1936H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe ii. xviii. 634 The fashionable ladies who played so active a part in this serio-comedy. |