burlesqueとは

意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• burlesk (古風な用法)

語源

Borrowed from French burlesque, from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /bə(ɹ)ˈlɛsk/

形容詞

burlesque (comparative more burlesque, superlative most burlesque)

1. Parodical; parodic
   • 1711 December 26, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, December 15, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     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.

等位語

• vaudevillian

派生語

• burlesquely

名詞

burlesque (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 burlesques)

1. A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.

   Synonyms: lampoon, travesty

   • 1711 December 26, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, December 15, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     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.

   • 1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry

     The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery‎^[1]:

     “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […] ”

2. A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.
3. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

   Synonyms: imitation, caricature

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     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?

等位語

• vaudeville

動詞

burlesque (三人称単数 現在形 burlesques, 現在分詞 burlesquing, 過去形および過去分詞形 burlesqued)

1. To make a burlesque parody of.
   • 1988, February 5, “Billie Lawless”, in Laying Down the Lawless‎^[2]:

     When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as "burlesquing the myth of male dominance" and instead printed "he prefers to describe them as . . . symbols of male dominance" it became clear that dealing with journalists was going to be one long, rocky road.

2. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
   • 1678, Edward Stillingfleet, A Sermon preached on the Fast-Day, November 13, 1678

     They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.