burlesque 的 4 个定义
- 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.
- involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject.
- of, relating to, or like stage-show burlesque.
bur·lesqued, bur·lesquing.
- to make ridiculous by mocking representation.
bur·lesqued, bur·lesquing.
- to use caricature.
burlesque 近义词
farcical
burlesque 的近义词 9 个
bawdy show; vaudeville
更多burlesque例句
- 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.