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Married twice by the time she was 16, she made her way to Los Angeles and was working as a cocktail waitress when a customer suggested that she consider dancing at a nearby burlesque theater, the Follies.
TEMPEST STORM, EXOTIC DANCER CALLED ‘THE LAST QUEEN OF BURLESQUE,’ DIES AT 93MATT SCHUDELAPRIL 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe genius of the French language seems more particularly to lend itself to the fabrication of burlesque forms and subterfuges.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANValmond stood watching intently, and the people were very still, for this seemed like real life, and no burlesque.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERI fancied that I had pitched my verses in so high a key that no one could mistake their burlesque intention.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINBad puns were evidently common on the stage before the days of Victorian burlesque.
WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMSHis haggard, melancholy mien was in admirable artistic contrast to his garb and the burlesque humour of his song.
TALES OF NORTHUMBRIAHOWARD PEASEWhen the burlesque prologue comes to a conclusion, Burattino's master puts in his appearance.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIThe Granelleschi professed sincere admiration for an obscure burlesque Florentine poet of the fifteenth century called Burchiello.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIThere was a tournament, directed by Truffaldino, who arranged burlesque encounters for the knights.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT CARLO GOZZI; VOLUME THE FIRSTCOUNT CARLO GOZZIHe so certainly involved her in the burlesque of the transformation that she had to quench memory.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO BURLESQUE
- be on
- bring down the house
- burlesque
- characterize
- do a turn
- dramatize
- emote
- enact
- feign
- go on
- go over
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- lay an egg
- make debut
- mime
- mimic
- mug
- parody
- perform
- personate
- personify
- play
- play act
- play gig
- play part
- play role
- portray
- pretend
- put it over
- rehearse
- represent
- say one's piece
- simulate
- star
- stooge
- strut
- take part
- tread the boards
- accomplished
- achieved
- began
- carried on
- carried out
- consummated
- cooked
- created
- developed
- did
- did a number
- did one's thing
- enforced
- executed
- functioned
- got in there
- intruded
- knocked off
- labored
- made progress
- maneuvered
- moved
- officiated
- operated
- percolated
- perked
- perpetrated
- persevered
- persisted
- practiced
- presided
- pursued
- responded
- served
- took effect
- took part
- took steps
- took up
- transorted
- undertook
- went about
- went for broke
- went for it
- went in for
- went that route
- went to town
- worked out
- ball
- burlesque
- camp
- chaffing
- comic drama
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- field day
- fun
- fun and games
- funnies
- funniness
- gag show
- high camp
- high time
- hilarity
- hoopla
- humor
- humorousness
- interlude
- jesting
- joking
- light entertainment
- merry-go-round
- picnic
- play on
- satire
- schtick
- send-up
- sitcom
- slapstick
- takeoff
- travesty
- vaudeville
- wisecracking
- witticism
- wittiness
- Photostats
- Xeroxes
- carbons
- cartoons
- clones
- counterfeits
- delineates
- depicts
- dittos
- draws
- dupes
- engraves
- engrosses
- fakes
- forges
- imitates
- knocks off
- limns
- manifolds
- mimeos
- mirrors
- molds
- paints
- paraphrases
- photocopies
- pictures
- plagiarizes
- portrays
- reduplicates
- reflects
- repeats
- replicates
- represents
- reproduces
- rewrites
- sculptures
- simulates
- sketches
- stats
- traces
- transcribes
- act like
- ape
- burlesque
- do
- do a take-off
- do like
- echo
- embody
- emulate
- epitomize
- fake
- follow
- follow example
- follow suit
- go like
- illustrate
- incarnate
- knock off
- make like
- mimic
- mirror
- mock
- model
- parody
- parrot
- personify
- phony
- pirate
- play a role
- prefigure
- repeat
- sham
- simulate
- steal
- take leaf out of book
- take off
- travesty
- typify
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.