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- noun Plural form of
vaudeville .
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Examples
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Everyone could go back to watching vaudevilles and drinking moonshine.
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And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious.
Les Miserables 2008
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"We did political street vaudevilles; at 14 I played H.R. Haldeman," says Robbins.
Two-Coast Man 2008
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The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with war.
Les Miserables 2008
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“Pshaw!” said the other, “a few vaudevilles, well enough in their way, written to oblige, a song now and again to suit some occasion, lines for music, no good without the music, and my long Epistle to a Sister of Bonaparte (ungrateful that he was), will not hand down my name to posterity.”
Two Poets 2007
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The result is a bunch of social comedies and vaudevilles, some romantic dramas in verse or in prose, all based on historical topics, most of their authors more famous as poets, novelists or even academics than playwrights.
Theatrical and Anti-Theatrical Aesthetics in Romania Today 2007
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The practical jokes, in which the set indulged became so famous, that not a few vaudevilles have been founded upon them.
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“Pshaw!” said the other, “a few vaudevilles, well enough in their way, written to oblige, a song now and again to suit some occasion, lines for music, no good without the music, and my long Epistle to a Sister of Bonaparte (ungrateful that he was), will not hand down my name to posterity.”
Two Poets 2007
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If Florine succeeds, I shall be editor of a newspaper with a fixed salary of two hundred and fifty francs per month; I shall take the important plays and leave the vaudevilles to Vernou, and you can take my place and do the Boulevard theatres, and so get a foot in the stirrup.
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The first box was occupied by the head of a department, to whom du Bruel, maker of vaudevilles, owed a snug little sinecure in the Treasury.
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