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▪ I. travesty, ppl. a. and n.|ˈtrævɪstɪ|
Also 7–8, 20– -ti, 7–9 -tie.
[Originally a. F. travesti, fem. travestie, pa. pple. of (se) travestir (Montaigne a 1592), ‘to disguise him, or take on another man's habit’ (Cotgr.), ad. It. travestire to disguise (Florio), f. tra- = trans- + It., L. vestīre to clothe. The adoption from It. in 16th c. accounts for the retention of s in Fr., as opposed to vêtir, revêtir. Made known in England in the title of Scarron's Le Virgile Travesty en vers burlesques (= Vergil travestied in burlesque verses), 1648, whence occasionally in other connexions, and at length as a n., used first in Scarron's sense, and later in the etymological one.]
A. ppl. a.
1. Dressed so as to be made ridiculous; burlesqued. (Const. as pa. pple.) Obs. or only as F.
c1662Davenant Play House to Let i. i, What think you Of Romances travesti..Burlesque and Travesti? These are hard words, And may be French, but not Law-French. 1664Cotton (title) Scarronides: or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. Being the First Book of Virgils æneis in English, Burlésque. 1672J. Phillips (title) Maronides, or Virgil Travestie: Being a New Paraphrase upon the Fifth Book of Virgils æneids in Burlesque Verse. 1673O. Walker Educ. ii. iii. 245 Virgil we have seen publickly, and even the holy Writings we heard to have been, travesty. a1774Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 130 One may laugh heartily at Virgil travestie, without either despising Cotton, or abating one's admiration of Virgil.
B. n.
1. A literary composition which aims at exciting laughter by burlesque and ludicrous treatment of a serious work; literary composition of this kind; hence, a grotesque or debased imitation or likeness; a caricature.
1674Butler Hud. i. iii. Annot. 196 This Vickars..translated Virgils æneides into as horrible Travesty in earnest, as the French Scaroon did in Burlesque. 1751Warburton Note Pope's Dunc. ii. 268 Accusing him..on a mere report from Edm. Curl, that he was Author of a Travestie on the first Psalm. 1789Belsham Ess. II. xxxvi. 300 It..has sometimes the effect of a ludicrous travesti of the Odyssey. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. v. 178 Those romances were but barbarous travesties of the original stories. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. ii. 73 The vulgar travesty of a miracle alleged to have been wrought by a coarse soldier.
2. a. Chiefly Theatr. In etymological sense: An alteration of dress or appearance; a disguise. spec. (dressing in) the attire of the opposite sex. Freq. (en) travesti.
The phr. en travesti(e), which is not recorded in Fr., represents a misinterpretation of the F. pa. pple. as a n.
1732Sir C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb., My design was to have travelled..incognito... But all my art and travestie was vain. 1823Byron Juan v. lxxiv, ‘At least’, said Juan, ‘sure I may inquire The cause of this odd travesty?’ 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. x. 102 He went into the pit, and saw..that eminent buffo actor, Tom Horseman, dressed as a woman. Horseman's travestie seemed to him a horrid and hideous degradation. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 212 Petipa, Marie S... Her husband created for her a dance, The Little Moujik, in which she appeared en travesti. 1959Times 3 Nov. 15/5 Defrance's troupe leaders and the girls in travesti receiving their last-minute counsels remain unaffectedly convincing. 1975New Yorker 12 May 131/1 Nero, Otho, Tamerlane, and Julius Caesar will still have to be played by women en travesti or by countertenors. 1980Daily Tel. 15 Dec. 10/1 Shapely young women have been showing off their legs en travesti since they were allowed on the English stage.
b. Comb. travesty role, a role designed to be played by a performer of the sex opposite to that of the character represented.
1958Listener 5 June 955/3 Michel Sénéchal handled the travesti role of Platée with tact and sang the difficult music in an accomplished style. 1978Times 23 Aug. 11/4 At the Coliseum Dennis Wicks makes the most of his travesty role.
▪ II. travesty, v.|ˈtrævɪstɪ|
[f. F. travesti pa. pple.: see prec. App. first used in the pa. pple. travestied = F. travesti or It. travestito. The simple vb. has not been found until after 1700. Cf. the history of travested.]
1. trans. To alter in dress or appearance; to disguise by such alteration.
1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 408 He slunk out of Rome thus ridiculously travesty'd. 1754Warburton Bolingbroke's Philos. ii. 73 Old Naturalism thus travestied under the name of Religion, his Lordship bestows..on his own dear Country. 1827Scott Napoleon Introd. ix. II. 305 Processions entered.., travestied in priestly garments. 1853Felton Fam. Lett. ix. (1865) 70 About ten courses of meat, so mixed, blended, and travestied with seasonings and vegetables, that it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to tell what any of them is made of.
2. To turn into ridicule by grotesque parody or imitation; to caricature, burlesque.
1673Bp. Ward Apol. Myst. Gosp. 42 Are the Mysteries of this Gospel..to be travestied or turned into Burlesque or Macaronique? 1756J. Warton Ess. Pope I. 57 One would imagine that John Dennis..had been here attempting to travesty this description of the restoration of Eurydice to life. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece vii. 197 The comic poets..travestied known characters so as to make them hardly recognisable. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. vi. 87 The true version of a story which..has been grossly travestied in the repetition.
Hence ˈtravestied |-tɪd| ppl. a.
1864Ess. Social Subjects 186 A reason which barely represents half your motives to yourself is sure to enter the other mind in such travestied guise as to convey nothing as you intend it. 1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 68 Teaching the older histories from a travestied standpoint. |