Definitions
A comic parody, theatrical entertainment, or exaggerated imitation.
Word origin
Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.”
“Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Comic parody”9 letters
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