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单词 vaudeville
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vaudevillen.

Brit. /ˈvɔːd(ə)vɪl/, /ˈvəʊd(ə)vɪl/, /ˈvɔːd(ə)viːl/, /ˈvəʊd(ə)viːl/, U.S. /ˈvɔd(ə)ˌvɪl/, /ˈvɔd(ə)vəl/, /ˈvɑd(ə)ˌvɪl/, /ˈvɑd(ə)vəl/
Etymology: < French vaudeville, earlier vau (plural 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 cent.
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).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song
roundelaya1475
black sanctus?1533
pastorella1597
orgial1610
balow1613
comic song1718
hunting-song1727
vaudeville1739
apopemptic1753
melologue1820
Orphic1855
wren song1855
air de cour1878
Kunstlied1880
action song1883
come-all-you1887
marching song1894
party song1911
theme song1929
honky-tonker1950
protest song1953
sing-along1959
slow jam1961
talking blues1969
rap1979
1739 H. 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.
1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 85 Whenever Carbonel sings his delicious vaudevilles we think of you.
a1819 R. Watt Bibliotheca Brit. (1824) 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 n. Compounds b) or music hall.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > other types of comedy
Old Comedy1529
New Comedy1542
comedy of errors?1595
romantic comedy1748
musical comedy1765
comédie larmoyante1773
sketch1789
serio-comedy1808
vaudeville1827
teacup-and-saucer comedy1842
satyr play1845
Restoration comedy1866
zarzuela1888
situation comedy1893
sex comedy1915
sitcom1956
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > [noun]
varieties1604
olio1688
burlesque1870
vaudeville1911
cine-variety1928
1827 T. J. Dibdin Reminisc. 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.
c1831 J. H. Reynolds in J. R. Planché Recollections & Reflections (1872) I. xii. 181 And lure for you the light Vaudeville from France.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. ix. 72 Fanny..was inimitable in vaudeville, in farce, and in the lighter comedy.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 228 The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show-box for vaudevilles and burlesques.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret III. vii. 197 Country people always go to see tragedies. None of your flimsy vaudevilles for them!
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xx. 25 Is this world and all the life upon it only like a farce or vaudeville, where you find no great meanings?
1891 Times 28 Oct. 13/4 A vaudeville entertainment, which was continued for about three months.
1899 W. C. Morrow Bohemian Paris 15 Paris, the great city, the vaudeville playhouse of the world.
1911 G. B. Shaw in Daily Graphic 2 Dec. 4/3 There are vaudeville theatres in America and variety theatres in England.
1917 Lit. 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’.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely v. 30 You would find them in tank town vaudeville acts..in the cheap burlesque houses.
1967 Stage 2 Mar. 4/1 The merging of vaudeville and tombola as a major February attraction at Blackpool last week succeeded.
1976 New Yorker 8 Mar. 57/1 The play is a lewd, tragic vaudeville about the life of a bankrupt pursued by creditors.
1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xxxiii. 197 You're a fifth-rate vaudeville actor.
1982 Verbatim 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).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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