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noun a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
noun a comedy with serious elements or overtones
originBorrowed from Middle French tragicomédie (whence French tragicomédie), itself borrowed from Italian tragicommedia, from Latin tragicōmoedia, tragicocōmoedia. By surface analysis, tragic + comedy, with haplology.
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