burlesque
noun
an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
had burlesqued
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past perfectof burlesque.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Here the revelers had burlesqued Henriette as the “Woman of Sorrows,” and here the guardsman had thrown off the chaplet and rebuked the crowd.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
