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31imitated — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. copied, duplicated, reproduced, mimicked, mocked, aped, parroted, counterfeited, caricatured, parodied, burlesqued, made similar, made to resemble, done in facsimile, plagiarized; see also printed , reproduced …
32Gilbertian — , GILBERTIANISM Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 1911), born in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England, was a playwright and humorist whose plays burlesqued contemporary behavior. As a young man, Gilbert was left a legacy that enabled him to …
33Méliès, Georges — (Marie Georges Jean Méliès / December 8, 1861, Paris, France January 21, 1938, Paris) The son of a wealthy footwear manufacturer, he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and completed his studies of art in London, where he also became …
34travesty — 1670s, from adjective meaning dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesqued (c.1660s), from Fr. travesti dressed in disguise, pp. of travestir to disguise (1590s), from It. travestire to disguise, from L. trans over (see TRANS (Cf.… …
35burlesque — [bə: lɛsk] noun 1》 a comically exaggerated imitation, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody. 2》 N. Amer. a variety show, typically including striptease. verb (burlesques, burlesquing, burlesqued) parody or imitate in a comically… …
36travestied — a. 1. Disguised. 2. Parodied, burlesqued …
37pride# — pride n Pride, vanity, vainglory are comparable when they mean the quality or the feeling of a person who is keenly or excessively aware of his own excellence or superiority. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are found in… …
38rhetorical — rhetorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, aureate, flowery, euphuistic, bombastic are comparable when they mean emphasizing style often at the expense of thought. Rhetorical describes a style, discourse, passage, phrase, or word which, however… …
39burlesque — /bɜˈlɛsk / (say ber lesk) noun 1. an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, which, for the sake of laughter, vulgarises lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity. 2. any ludicrous take off or debasing caricature …
40burlesque — ► NOUN 1) a comically exaggerated imitation, especially in a literary or dramatic work. 2) N. Amer. a variety show, typically including striptease. ► VERB (burlesques, burlesqued, burlesquing) ▪ parody. ORIGIN French, from Itali …
