In contemporary usage, burlesque is a playfully nostalgic form of striptease think fans and feather boas rather than explicit nudity but this is just the latest form of an ironic style of entertainment dating back to medieval times.
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.
Noun
a composition that imitates somebody''s style in a humorous way
Noun
a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
Verb
make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"
Adjective
relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater"
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.
n.
Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque
satire.
n.
An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite
laughter, or to ridicule anything.
n.
A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross
perversion.
v. t.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque
representation in action or in language.
v. i.
To employ burlesque.
Burlesque
It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.
Burlesque
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.2.
The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.3.
Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Burlesque
They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Burlesque
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.
Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
To employ burlesque.
Usage Examples
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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