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COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("commedia dell'arte" is a kind of...):
comedy (light and humorous drama with a happy ending)