English Explanatory Dictionary

white telephone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.
  2. Films of other nations that share a nonseriousness of tone and disconnection from reality with the Italian films.
adj
  1. Characteristic of the Italian genre of film, white telephone; a sense of consequence-free lives of privilege.

Word forms

white telephone white telephones more white telephone most white telephone white-telephone

Etymology

Calque of Italian telefoni bianchi.

Related words

big white telephone
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