melodrame

See also: mélodrame

English

Etymology

From 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.

   • 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.

References

• “melodrame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.