Meaning of melodrame | Babel Free

Definitions

Ouvrage dramatique dans lequel sont accumulées les situations violentes et les péripéties imprévues.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames.”

“The Englishwoman diffuses over a whole day what the French reserves for a few hours. Effect there is the summing up. In great, as in little things, the French are a nation of actors—life is to them a great melodrame.”

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