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vaudeville|ˈvɔːd(ə)vɪl, ˈvəʊd-, -viːl|
[F. vaudeville, earlier vau (pl. vaux) de ville, vau de vire, and in full chanson du Vau de Vire a song of the valley of Vire (in Calvados, Normandy). The name is said to have been first given to songs composed by Olivier Basselin, a fuller of Vire in the 15th c.]
1. A light popular song, commonly of a satirical or topical nature; spec. a song of this nature sung on the stage.
The entry in Blount Glossogr. (1656) is copied directly from Cotgrave (1611).
1739H. Walpole Let. to R. West 18 June, I will send you one of the vaudevilles or ballads which they sing at the comedy after their petites pièces. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 85 Whenever Carbonel sings his delicious vaudevilles we think of you. 1824Watts Bibl. Brit. II. 617 Simon de la Loubere..also wrote Songs, Vaudevilles, Madrigals, Sonnets, Odes, &c.
2. A play or stage performance of a light and amusing character interspersed with songs; also without article, this species of play or comedy. Now in frequent use in the U.S. to designate variety theatre (variety 9 b) or music hall.
1827T. Dibdin Reminiscences I. xii. 268, I also had the honour..of being selected by her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth to write a sort of vaudeville farce. c1831J. H. Reynolds in J. R. Planché Recollections & Reflections (1872) I. xii. 181 And lure for you the light Vaudeville from France. 1833Lytton Godolphin ix, Fanny..was inimitable in vaudeville, in farce, and in the lighter comedy. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 65/2 The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show-box for vaudevilles and burlesques. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxix, Country people always go to see tragedies. None of your flimsy vaudevilles for them! 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xx, Is this world and all the life upon it only like a farce or vaudeville, where you find no great meanings? 1891Times 28 Oct. 13/4 A vaudeville entertainment, which was continued for about three months. 1899Morrow Bohem. Paris 15 Paris, the great city, the vaudeville playhouse of the world. 1911G. B. Shaw in Daily Graphic 2 Dec. 4/3 There are vaudeville theatres in America and variety theatres in England. 1917Lit. Digest 25 Aug. 28/2 The phrase ‘Jaz her up’ is a common one to-day in vaudeville and on the circus lot. When a vaudeville act needs ginger the cry from the advisers in the wings is ‘put in jaz’. 1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely v. 30 You would find them in tank town vaudeville acts..in the cheap burlesque houses. 1967Stage 2 Mar. 4/1 The merging of vaudeville and tombola as a major February attraction at Blackpool last week succeeded. 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 57/1 The play is a lewd, tragic vaudeville about the life of a bankrupt pursued by creditors. 1976J. Crosby Nightfall xxxiii. 197 You're a fifth-rate vaudeville actor. 1982Verbatim Autumn 23/2 The subject is given light-hearted treatment, as though this jargon were little more than food for variety turns (i.e., vaudeville acts). |