tuồng
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Vietnamese
Etymology
The more original meaning word was "look; appearance", which then extended to the performance art due to the performers' eye-catching costumes; hát tuồng therefore can be understood as "costume singing" or "vocal performance with costumes".
Pronunciation
Noun
- (colloquial) look; appearance; mien
- (by extension) classical Vietnamese opera (hát tuồng)
- (derogatory) sort; kind (of person)
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Adverb
- (obsolete) probably, roughly
- (obsolete) to seem; to look
- Tân biên Truyền kỳ mạn lục tăng bổ giải âm tập chú (新編傳奇漫錄增補解音集註)
- 象拯蒸𫜵麻𫜵意羅𡗶
- Tuồng chẳng chưng làm mà làm ấy là trời.
- It seems that one who does not do anything, but does it is due to heaven.
- Tân biên Truyền kỳ mạn lục tăng bổ giải âm tập chú (新編傳奇漫錄增補解音集註)
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