Definition of "burletta" [bur•let•ta]

• A comic operetta; a musical farce. (noun)

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• ""burletta," or to touch a note upon the piano, now and then, in the course of a performance, so as to justify its claim to be a musical entertainment; all subterfuges of this kind ceased."
• "Suppose me, for once, a burletta projector, Who attempts a mock musical scrap of a lecture."
• "Oliver Twist: a serio-comic burletta, in three acts."