burlesque
滑稽戏,滑稽剧,滑稽表演,歌舞剧
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Definitions
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- : an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
- : any ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature.
- : Also bur·lesk . a humorous and provocative stage show featuring slapstick humor, comic skits, bawdy songs, striptease acts, and a scantily clad female chorus.
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- : involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject.
- : of, relating to, or like stage-show burlesque.
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bur·lesqued, bur·lesquing.
- : to make ridiculous by mocking representation.
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bur·lesqued, bur·lesquing.
- : to use caricature.
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Examples
Married twice by the time she was 16, she made her way to Los Angeles and was working as a cocktail waitress when a customer suggested that she consider dancing at a nearby burlesque theater, the Follies.
Modern burlesque had, by then, shed its reputation for seedy strip clubs and desperate acts.
Mixing innovative cocktails and dancing burlesque have one thing in common—they are both performances.
Burlesque artists are often in it for the costumes, spending what they earn on fabric, feathers, and crystals.
“The nature of the burlesque scene in London is as diverse as burlesque itself,” said Howard Wilmot, creator of Boylexe/Burlexe.
Boylexe is a spin-off of a show about women in burlesque called Burlexe, which likewise mixes striptease, monologue, and song.
The genius of the French language seems more particularly to lend itself to the fabrication of burlesque forms and subterfuges.
Valmond stood watching intently, and the people were very still, for this seemed like real life, and no burlesque.
I fancied that I had pitched my verses in so high a key that no one could mistake their burlesque intention.
Bad puns were evidently common on the stage before the days of Victorian burlesque.
His haggard, melancholy mien was in admirable artistic contrast to his garb and the burlesque humour of his song.