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gilbertian

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Adjective

wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas
- a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings- T.C.Worsley

of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert
- Gilbertian libretti

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