A small or minor dramatic work, piece, or performance; a short play or theatrical sketch.
From dramatic plus the diminutive suffix -le, which is a variant of -let (as in article, particle, corpuscle), showing the tendency to create smaller versions.
The diminutive '-le' in words like 'dramaticle' and 'corpuscle' shows how English borrows diminutive patterns from Romance languages—giving us a way to describe small versions of big concepts!
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