Zarzuela (noun)
zah-zweyl-a
A Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and often a satirically treated, topical theme
First used in English between 1885–90. From Spanish, after La Zarzeula, a palace near Madrid where the first performance took place (1629).
Example sentences
“It was a zarzuela on the state of the economy.”
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