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- noun A modern fashion style based on traditional
burlesque .
Etymologies
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neo- + burlesque
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Part of the problem may stem from the anti-intellectual instincts of the flourishing neoburlesque movement, which largely sidesteps meaningful questions about fetishizing women by wrapping striptease in irony.
Chicago Reader 2010
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