Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music A whimsical or fanciful composition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A musical composition of humorous or capricious character; a caprice.
Wiktionary
- n. music A composition that is playful in attitude and tone.
Etymologies
- German Humoreske, from Humor, humor, from English humor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Eat, Sleep and Wii," for instance, is one of many stabs at toilet humoresque catchphrases.”
“The other substantive cut involved a basketball game—a wildly comic, black humoresque extravaganza in which the home team would ultimately lose by more than a hundred points.”
“He sat down in the evening to that old Russian merchant trader's piano, in our headquarters, and rambled from chords and airs to humoresque and rhapsodies.”
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“She was Fashion's humoresque, except that Fashion has no sense of humor.”
“The "Melody and Intermezzo" of opus 20 makes a sprightly humoresque.”
“It is written in the limited Chinese scale, with harmonies of our school; and is a humoresque of such catchiness that it has pervaded even London and”
“Heine's "Des Waldes Kapellmeister" has been made into a most hilarious humoresque.”
“But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.”
“It was of brown material, at the blunt end a circle of white for the ash and at its centre a brilliant square of scarlet paper for the glow, altogether a charming feat of simulation, perhaps the most delightful humoresque in all confectionery.”
“Carl Nielsen's choral work "Fynsk Forår" (Springtime in Funen - a lyric humoresque) for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Opus 42).”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘humoresque’.
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alhambresque, picturesque, zolaesque, arboresque, dantesque, gigantesque, grotesque, burlesque, humoresque, arabesque, audenesque, cézannesque and 12 more...
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2008 Wordlist
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Ends With "Que"
plaque, appliqué, bisque, communiqué, grotesque, marque, monocoque, odalisque, baroque, brusque, dantesque, critique and 46 more...
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