operetta
o puh re tuh
- n a short amusing opera
- They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the .
- After seeing faces like theirs, you don't feel like going to an operetta in the evening.
- Last week he was the heroalthough he never appeared onstageof an anemic operetta put up by two British expatriates.