| 单词 | vaudeville |
| 释义 | vaudeville (once / 2591 pages) n Vaudeville is a type of entertainment that mixes comedy and music in a variety show. Originally, a vaudeville was a popular song satirizing current events. Eventually, it came to mean a type of variety show that mixed comedy and music. Vaudeville, or "music hall," was popular between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Vaudeville performers were multi-talented, because they might have to tell a joke one minute, dance the next, and then sing. The word vaudeville comes from the French phrase voix de ville, "voice of the city." WORD FAMILYvaudeville: vaudevilles, vaudevillian+/vaudevillian: vaudevillians USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, Ms. Fisher and her mother soldiered on together like an old, squabbling vaudeville team. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The Aristocrats is a documentary comedy in which 100 comedians tell variations on the same joke that’s been told by comedians since the vaudeville era. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) Critic David Hajdu traces the trajectory of American hits, from the iconoclasts of Vaudeville to the protest songs of the 1960s. Time(Dec 12, 2016) n a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. Syn|Hyper music hall variety, variety show a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances |
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