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Definition of Operatics
1. operatic [n] - See also: operatic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operatics
Literary usage of Operatics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 by William Michael Rossetti (1899)
"We were late and ill-pleased, discomfort and heat fierce and intolerable,
acting (English operatics) do.; altogether before it was over I felt ill, ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"as the years make ever more prominent its phoney operatics —Times Literary Supp., 4
Jan. 1968 . . . who has amassed over 40 phoney degrees himself in five ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... it is a pretty, quiet, girlish part, that could be played hy any young lady
in a case of amateur theatricals,—or, rather operatics —in a drawing-room, ..."
4. Reminiscences of the Opera by Benjamin Lumley (1864)
"... remaining early season, and never had Lenten operatics been so successful a
speculation to any previous manager. To Mario the past had been forgiven. ..."
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