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語源

Borrowed from French vaudeville.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvɔ.d(ə).vɪl/, /ˈvəʊd.vɪl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvɔː.d(ə)ˌvɪl/, /-vəl/

名詞

vaudeville (countable and uncountable, plural vaudevilles)

1. (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.

   Synonym: (British) music hall

   Coordinate term: burlesque

   • 1990 November 2, Peter B. Flint, “Jack Sterling, 75, Host on Radio For 18 Years in New York, Dies”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.

2. (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.
   • 2008 January 28, Ben Brantley, “Ta-ta! Give ’Em the Old Existential Soft-Shoe”, in The New York Times‎:

     “Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.

派生語

派生した語

• → Tagalog: bodabil

Further reading

• “vaudeville”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “vaudeville”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “vaudeville”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “vaudeville”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “vaudeville”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “vaudeville, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.