opera bouffe
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General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
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He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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But that is your illustration; I would rather say opera bouffe, which is probably the truest copy of Life—if we were limited to one kind.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer
