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■ noun an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th–18th centuries, based on stock characters.
Origin
Ital., 'comedy of art'.
[ kɒ'meɪdɪə dɛl'α:teɪ ]
■ noun an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th–18th centuries, based on stock characters.
Origin
Ital., 'comedy of art'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004