单词 | comédie larmoyante |
释义 | comédie larmoyanten. Now historical. A sentimental and moralizing form of comic drama popular in France in the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy Old Comedy1529 New Comedy1542 comedy of errors?1595 romantic comedy1748 musical comedy1765 comédie larmoyante1773 sketch1789 serio-comedy1808 vaudeville1827 teacup-and-saucer comedy1842 satyr play1845 Restoration comedy1866 zarzuela1888 situation comedy1893 sex comedy1915 sitcom1956 1773 C. Burney Present State Music in Germany I. 23 The piece that was performed to night, July 15th, 1772, was Zemire and Azor, a species of Comedie larmoyante. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xiii. 30 I advise you to write a sentimental comedy, a comédie larmoyante. 1912 19th Cent. & After Apr. 785 Early eighteenth-century France saw the spring of sentiment bubble up in the ‘comédie larmoyante’. 1995 W. Howarth Beaumarchais & Theatre vi. 77 The term ‘comédie larmoyante’ no longer embodies any paradox. The genre forms part of the evolution of serious comedy. 2008 Nineteenth Cent. Music 32 6/1 This direct appeal to audiences' emotions is..closely aligned with the French comédie larmoyante. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1773 |
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