Определение soubrette в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
A female servant or attendant, especially as mischievous or cheeky, often featuring in theatrical comedies
The servants in the hall tonight are whitely-wigged black slaves in livery of a certain grade of satin and refinement of lace,– black Major-domos and black Soubrettes.
A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman
{i} maidservant or lady's maid who tends to be pert and flirtatious (in a theatrical production); actress who plays the part of a soubrette; saucy and flirtatious young lady
a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy a pert or flirtatious young girl
soubrette
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Этимология
[ sü-'bret ] (noun.) 1753. From French soubrette, from Occitan soubreto, the feminine of soubret ‘coy’, from soubra (Provençal sobrar), from Latin superare ‘be above’.