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English
Etymology
From French mélodrame.
Noun
melodrame (countable and uncountable, plural melodrames)
- 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.
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 214: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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