burlesque

• Vive La Decadence, May 30, burlesque, the LOF / t, 120 W. North Ave., loadoffun. net. —  Baltimore City Paper
• The spirit of burlesque is already alive and well at Scottish Ballet.
• One would have thought that their own half-despairing efforts to invest in worthy outward shape the vague inward impressions of sublimity, and the consciousness of an implicit ideal in the commonest scenes, might have made them susceptible of some disgust or alarm at a species of burlesque which is likely to render their compositions no better than a dissolving view, where every noble form is seen melting into its preposterous caricature. —  Impressions of Theophrastus Such
• Another point of interest in connection with this burlesque is the frontispiece which Hogarth supplied to the edition of 1731. —  Fielding
• It was on this paper that young Sam Clemens began his writings--burlesque, as a rule, of local characters and conditions--usually published in his brother's absence; generally resulting in trouble on his return. —  Complete Letters of Mark Twain

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