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How to use burlesque in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Burlesque means parodical; parodic. Example: “Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.”

More sentences with burlesque

  • Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.2008 April 18, Susan Dominus, “Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books”, in The New York Times. From the entry organize
  • The Minsky family had become synonymous with burlesque beginning in its earliest days, was hugely profitable.2004 August 12, Vicki Gold Levi, Steven Heller, Times Square Style: Graphics from the Great White Way, Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN. From the entry burley
  • A few pessimizing compilers have been written on purpose, however, as pranks or burlesques.1996, Eric S[teven] Raymond, “pessimizing compiler”, in The New Hacker’s Dictionary, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press…. From the entry pessimize
  • And Hattie Fuller makes me think, somehow, of a burlesque actress.1922, Edna Ferber, Gigolo, Plain Label Books, page 103. From the entry Hattie
  • In some parts the burlesque civic official was designated ‘Mayor of the Pig Market’.1902 May 22, Westminster Gazette, p. 2. From the entry mayor
  • However, my personal brand of burlesque owes more to the fabulous showgirls of la belle époque in Paris.2006 March 25, Dita Von Teese [pseudonym; Heather Renée Sweet], “A brief history of burlesque”, in The Independent, London: Independent…. From the entry la belle époque
  • So far only two or three of Shaw’s manly women have been recognizable human beings; the rest have been burlesques.1954, Arthur H. Nethercot, “V. The Female of the Species”, in Men and Supermen, Harvard University Press, 6. The Manly Woman, page 122. From the entry acrobatess
  • The fact is that we have, all of us, been dilatory to a degree where burlesque is concerned.1937 May 4, Mabelle Jennings, “An Editorial”, in Washington Herald, volume 15, number 162, Washington, D.C., page 9. From the entry mucidness
  • I am expecting a splendid burlesque now."1913, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Eva M. Martin, The Idiot, Part III, Chapter IV. From the entry touched
  • Advanced burlesque, even, wouldn't have him for a house manager; why should the very real business of photodrama tolerate his turtleish inefficiency?1915 November, ““CLOSE-UPS””, in Photoplay Magazine, volume 8, number 6, page 51. From the entry turtleish
  • Not all critics grasped the nature of this new opera genre, somewhere between burlesque and satire, with a 'topsy-turvydom' so prominent in Gilbert's view of the world.2015, Stephen Wade, A Victorian Somebody: The Life of George Grossmith. From the entry topsyturvydom

Meaning of burlesque

  1. adjective Parodical; parodic.
  2. noun A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
  3. noun A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from the 1880s to the 1930s.

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Questions about burlesque in a sentence

How do you use burlesque in a sentence?
Burlesque is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Sketchy’s, a life drawing class that’s also a burlesque show with music, costumes and seminudity.”
What is a short sentence with burlesque?
“I am expecting a splendid burlesque now."”
What does burlesque mean?
Burlesque means parodical; parodic.

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