melodrame

Noun

1. Obsolete form of melodrama.
   • Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames. - 1828, John Scott, John Taylor, The London...
   • The Englishwoman diffuses over a whole day what the French reserves for a few hours. Effect there is the summing up. In great, as in little things, the French are a nation of actors—life is to them a great melodrame. -...