| 单词 | en travesti |
| 释义 | > as lemmasen (also in) travesti P1. en (also in) travesti: in disguise; in costume; spec. (chiefly Theatre) dressed as a member of the opposite sex. [After French en travesti (1824 or earlier) < en in prep. + travesti (see main etymology).] ΚΠ 1872 J. P. Story Choisy xi. 71/1 He is going down to Trouville..where they wear a nightcap in the daytime, which is primitive and emblematic of repose, and bathe en travestie, as they dance four months later at the opera-balls. 1957 G. 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. 2013 B. Kendall-Davies Life & Work Pauline Viardot Garcia (ed. 2) I. xxxii. 575 Parts written for mezzos were usually for..young women in travesti or older ones in character parts. < as lemmas |
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