d'oyly carte

1. 1.

   English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)

   SynonymsRichard D'Oyly Carte

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Questions about d'oyly carte

What does d'oyly carte mean?

d'oyly carte means "English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)".

What is another word for d'oyly carte?

Close synonyms include Richard D'Oyly Carte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is d'oyly carte a common word?

d'oyly carte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.