burlesque — 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.
• farcical adj Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

Senses

burlesque is used for these senses in English:

• burlesque (dated) Parodical; parodic
• farcical Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

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.

Related French words