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  • adj.farcical
  • nounbawdy show; vaudeville

synonyms for burlesque

  • comic
  • mock
  • mocking
  • caricatural
  • ironical
  • ludicrous
  • parodic
  • satirical
  • farce
  • spoof
  • travesty
  • caricature
  • lampoon
  • mock
  • mockery
  • parody
  • pastiche
  • revue
  • satire
  • strip
  • takeoff
  • vaudeville
  • burly
  • lampoonery
  • peep show
  • send-up
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Local drag legend Shi-Queeta-Lee served as the emcee, the GenOUT LGBTQ Youth Chorus sang the national anthem and burlesque drag performer Betty O’Hellno led the Wizards Dance Team in the halftime show.
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He needed to get to The Ed Sullivan Show and didn’t have a chaperone, so he got a burlesque dancer to take him there—that’s fantastic.
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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.
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The genius of the French language seems more particularly to lend itself to the fabrication of burlesque forms and subterfuges.
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Valmond stood watching intently, and the people were very still, for this seemed like real life, and no burlesque.
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I fancied that I had pitched my verses in so high a key that no one could mistake their burlesque intention.
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Bad puns were evidently common on the stage before the days of Victorian burlesque.
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His haggard, melancholy mien was in admirable artistic contrast to his garb and the burlesque humour of his song.
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When the burlesque prologue comes to a conclusion, Burattino's master puts in his appearance.
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The Granelleschi professed sincere admiration for an obscure burlesque Florentine poet of the fifteenth century called Burchiello.
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