| 单词 | burlesque actor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburlesque actor a. Of the nature of derisive imitation; ironically bombastic, mock-heroic or mock-pathetic; now chiefly said of literary or oratorical compositions and dramatic representations; formerly (quot. 1712) also of pictorial caricatures. In burlesque author, burlesque poet, burlesque actor = a writer of burlesque literature, an actor of burlesque parts, there is a mixture of the attributive use of the noun in B. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > parodic or burlesque doggerel?1550 burlesquea1700 parodiousa1704 parodical1774 parodial1807 caricaturish1819 parodic1828 parodistic1845 a1700 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 285 I shall not here, with burlesque penners, Carp at her beauty. 1712 J. Hughes in Spectator No. 537. ⁋2 Those burlesque Pictures, which the Italians call Caracatura's. 1714 Spectator No. 616. ⁋2 Our little burlesque authors, who are the delight of ordinary readers. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. iv. 247 Our nation can boast..poems of the burlesque kind. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xxiii. 351 Cathleen sung..a little Gaelic song, the burlesque elegy of a countryman on the loss of his cow. View more context for this quotation 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1854) II. 552 Burlesque romances in the sweetest Tuscan. < as lemmas |
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