Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRAG-I-COM'E-DY
TRAG'IC-AL-NESSTRAG-I-COM'IC, or TRAG-I-COM'IC-AL
TRAG-I-COM'E-DY, n. [Fr. tragi-comedie; tragedy and comedy.]
A kind of dramatic piece representing some action passed among eminent persons, the event of which is not unhappy, in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a species of composition not now used, or held in little estimation. Cyc.
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