n. A female servant or attendant, especially as mischievous or cheeky, often featuring in theatrical comedies
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A female servant or attendant; specifically, as a term of the theater, a lady's maid, in comedies, who acts the part of an intrigante; a meddlesome, mischievous female servant or young woman.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Theat., a maidservant in comedy, frequently a lady's-maid.
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n. a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy
n. a pert or flirtatious young girl
Word Usage
"In classical music and opera, the term soubrette refers to both a soprano voice type and a particular type of opera role."