soubrette
‘a maid-servant or lady’s maid as a character in a play or opera’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. soubrette < Prov. soubreto ‘affected, conceited’ < soubret ‘coy, reserved’ < soubra ‘to set aside’ < O.Prov. sobrar < Lat. superare ‘to rise above, overcome’ < super ‘over, above, beyond’ < soob < uper < Tamil uppu