Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Characteristic of the Italian genre of film, white telephone; a sense of consequence-free lives of privilege.
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Usage: derogatory, often
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noun
Italian light-comedy and melodramatic films from the Fascist period.
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Usage: countable, derogatory, uncountable
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noun
Films of other nations that share a nonseriousness of tone and disconnection from reality with the Italian films.
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Usage: countable, derogatory, often, uncountable
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History
Calque of Italian telefoni bianchi.
