Definition of Burlesk

1. a type of stage show [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlesk

burkinis
burkite
burkites
burkitt lymphoma
burks
burl
burladero
burladeros
burlap
burlap bag
burlaps
burlaw
burled
burler
burlers
burlesk (current term)
burlesks
burlesque
burlesqued
burlesquely
burlesquer
burlesquers
burlesques
burlesquing
burletta
burlettas
burley
burleycue
burleys
burlier

Literary usage of Burlesk

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geschichte der grotesken Satire by Heinrich Schneegans (1894)
"Der Ausdruck „burlesk" vom ital. burla (Scherz) ist häufig sowohl in der italienischen als in der französischen Literaturgeschichte gebraucht worden; ..."

2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"To it they add various miscellaneous new spellings: aker, anser, burlesk, buro, cam- pain, catar, counterfit, delite, foren, forfit, frend, grotesk, iland, ..."

3. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"burlesk Verse. At Paris Christ's Passion in burlesk. A Tragedy of Aeschylus. The defeat of Xerxes. The Subject and Oeconomy. Haw imitated for our English ..."

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