Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A whimsical or fanciful composition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical composition of humorous or capricious character; a caprice.
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- noun music A
composition that is playful in attitude and tone.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Eat, Sleep and Wii," for instance, is one of many stabs at toilet humoresque catchphrases.
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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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.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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She was Fashion's humoresque, except that Fashion has no sense of humor.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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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
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Heine's "Des Waldes Kapellmeister" has been made into a most hilarious humoresque.
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The "Melody and Intermezzo" of opus 20 makes a sprightly humoresque.
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But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day.
The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905
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