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Recent Examples of soubretteShe is gifted with a lovely color of a lyric soprano suitable for roles in the spectrum from a lyric, lyric coloratura to a soubrette.—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025 Not only did diners want to enjoy her singing in the cabaret, no doubt many could not resist coming to see for themselves the soubrette who had inspired such fury in the late George VI.—Olivia Williams, Town & Country, 1 June 2021 That show featured a song called 'The Yama Yama Man,’ in which chorus girls cavorted in Yama Yama suits while a soubrette sang about the creepy Yama Yama Man.—Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2017
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coquette
Noun
Along with Labubus, the shopsilverstars makes K-pop, coquette, and Taylor Swift advent calendar gift boxes.
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Katie Decker-Jacoby,
StyleCaster,
27 Sep. 2025
Hopping onto the monochromatic look, and keeping the feminine ties to the silhouette and not the color scheme, these $90 take on the coquette trend and meets it with its sporty figure.
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