Crossword-Solution: BURLESQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Burlesque | a. | Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. |
| Burlesque | n. | Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. |
| Burlesque | n. | An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything. |
| Burlesque | n. | A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion. |
| Burlesque | v. t. | To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language. |
| Burlesque | v. i. | To employ burlesque. |
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Sentences with BURLESQUE (5)
Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.
Thus was I engaged when young Rupert Hentzau, who feared neither man nor devil, and rode through the demesne--where every tree might hide a marksman, for all he knew--as though it had been the park at Strelsau, cantered up to where I lay, bowing with burlesque deference, and craving private speech with me in order to deliver a message from the Duke of Strelsau.
Corey's house," interrupted the host, with a burlesque haste in disclaiming responsibility for it that made them all laugh.
Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
Even if he had written it as a burlesque of such a play as Marlow’s ‘Jew of Malta’, he could not have avoided some revelation of that sense of moral proportion which is omnipresent in his Plays.
Quotes with BURLESQUE (3)
I had first thought of Milly's absurdities, to which, in description, I cannot do justice, simply because so many details have, by distance of time, escaped my recollection. But her ways and her talk were so indescribably grotesque that she made me again and again quiver with suppressed laughter. But there was a pitiable and even a melancholy meaning underlying the burlesque. This creature, with no more education than a dairy-maid, I gradually discovered had fine natural apti…
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
The Hudson Burlesque Of all the theaters I miss from that era, the Hudson Theatre tops the list. It was built in what was then called Union Hill, early in December 1907. We called it the Hudson Burlesque, and it featured striptease artists such as Lili St. Cyr, Gypsy Rose Lee and Tempest Storm. Being too young to get into the theatre on my own, I usually offered an adult standing in line some money to take me in. Once inside, I would head for the front of the theatre to the f…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1953–2011).