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travestier

/ˌtrævəˈstiər/

travestier noun: one who makes a travesty of something.

Noun

travestier (plural travestiers)

  1. One who makes a travesty of something.
    • The travestier conceives that it is a palpable mistake to suppose Homer wrote his great poems seriously,—he considers that they are “ludicrous,” not “sublime” poems.1824 November 20, W[illia]m L[isle] Bowles, “Letter XV.”, in A Final Appeal to the Literary Public, Relative to Pope, in Reply to Certain Observations of Mr. Roscoe, in His Edition of That Poet’s...
    • It is the majestic simplicity of the great Wordsworth compared with the feeble and starveling attempts of his imitators, the harmless caricatures of his travestiers.1841, Joseph Bartlett, Music as an Auxiliary to Religion. An Address before the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, April, 1841., Boston, Mass.: […] Crocker and Brewster, […], page 14

Forms of travestier

pluraltravestiers

Origin of travestier

From travesty + -er.

Questions about travestier

What does travestier mean?
Travestier means one who makes a travesty of something.
What part of speech is travestier?
Travestier is a noun.
How do you pronounce travestier?
Travestier is pronounced /ˌtrævəˈstiər/.
What is the plural of travestier?
The plural of travestier is travestiers.

Words near travestier in the dictionary

  1. travested
  2. travesti
  3. travesticide
  4. travesticides
  5. travestied
  6. travestier
  7. travestiers
  8. travesties
  9. travestiment
  10. travestiments
  11. travesting

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