English Explanatory Dictionary

demi-caractère

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Which, in the historical French nomenclature, was halfway between serious (sérieux) and comic (comique); typically, where the protagonists or the plot were not noble enough compared to those derived from mythology or history, but could still convey serious emotions (see for example the 1886 Camille Bellaigue quotation about Bizet's opera Carmen under French demi-caractère)

Word forms

demi-caractère

Etymology

Borrowed from French demi-caractère.

Synonyms

demicharacter
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