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• 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. (dated) Parodical; parodic
   • 1711 December 26 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, December 15, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] 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.

   • 1877, John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms‎^[1], fourth edition, page 791:

     Podunk. A term applied to an imaginary place in burlesque writing or speaking.

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 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “SATURDAY, December 15, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 249; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] 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^[2]:

     “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 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:

     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^[3]:

     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.