melodrame

See also: mélodrame

English

Etymology

French mélodrame

Noun

melodrame (countable and uncountable, plural melodrames)

  1. Obsolete form of melodrama.
    • 1828, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine (page 128)
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for melodrame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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