burlesco — meaning in English
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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.
- mocking adj Showing scorn or ridicule; teasing in a mean-spirited way.
Senses
burlesco is used for these senses in English:
burlesque — full definition
- 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.
- 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.
- verb To imitate something in an exaggerated, mocking way.
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