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Definitionadj. relating to or characteristic of a burlesque
Last update: July 26, 2015
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Burlesque theater. [Please select]
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Many favourite farces were played, and the burlesque written by the chaplain met with great success. [Please select]
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I have been working for many years as a burlesque performer. [Please select]
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Philip almost suspected that he was essaying a burlesque role. [Please select]
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The name was probably adopted to burlesque the royalist societies. [verb]
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Fielding's first novel, Joseph Andrews (1742), was inspired by the success of Pamela, and began as a burlesque of the false sentimentality and the conventional virtues of Richardson's heroine. [Please select]
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There the burlesque ends; the hero takes to the open road, and Fielding forgets all about Pamela in telling the adventures of Joseph and his companion, Parson Adams. [Please select]
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The style of both writers is marked by homely, vigorous expression, satire, burlesque, repartee. [Please select]
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At times he was familiar and colloquial; now he was loud, energetic, and boisterous;--some parts of his discourse might be called sublime, and others sunk below burlesque. [Please select]
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Francesco Berni, 1496-1535, burlesque poet. [Please select]
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The day had arrived with more bumps and grinds than a burlesque matron. [Please select]
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