English Dictionary

horse opera

名詞

慣用表現 古語

(idiomatic) A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.

日本語の意味

アメリカの旧西部を舞台にした劇、映画、テレビやラジオの番組など、いわゆる「ウエスタン」作品を指す俗称。 / 西部劇（アメリカ西部の冒険やドラマを題材としたエンターテインメント）

Last night we watched a classic horse opera that romanticized the lone sheriff's struggle against outlaws.

昨夜、私たちは一人の保安官が無法者たちと戦う姿を美化した古典的な西部劇を見ました。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western.

Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, archaic) An equestrian show, as in a circus.

The Ravels, after having played a successful engagement at the Metropolitan, closed last evening, and sail to-day for New-Orleans, and now we have no amusement but nigger minstrels and the horse opera—i.e., circus.

horse operas （ plural ）