burletta

burletta
/beuhr let"euh/, n. Theat.
(in the 18th and 19th centuries) a musical drama containing rhymed lyrics and resembling comic opera or a comic play containing songs.
[1740-50; < It, equiv. to burl(a) jest (see BURLESQUE) + -etta -ETTE]

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