单词 | vaudeville |
释义 | vaudevillen. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1739 |
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