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Scarron, who had travestied Virgil, was not the man to spare La Calprenède, and he does not lose his opportunity.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.

But I do not think at this date it had occurred to him to question the assumption of the period: that official Christianity, its priesthood especially, had travestied the original intention of Christ.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

He was arrayed in what the police reports in the newspapers call "the height of fashion,"—that is to say, he had travestied the style of the most daring dandies of last year.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various