travestiers

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...