varieté — meaning in English

English meaning

• burlesque noun A variety stage show combining comic sketches, musical numbers and striptease, associated with American theatres of the early twentieth century and revived since the 1990s as a knowingly retro, glamorous performance art.

Senses

varieté is used for these senses in English:

• burlesque A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.

burlesque — full definition

1. noun A variety stage show combining comic sketches, musical numbers and striptease, associated with American theatres of the early twentieth century and revived since the 1990s as a knowingly retro, glamorous performance art.
2. noun A piece of writing, music or theatre that mocks something serious by treating it in a deliberately mismatched way — grand subjects handled cheaply, or trivial subjects handled with mock grandeur.
3. verb To imitate something in an exaggerated, mocking way.