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.
has burlesqued
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present perfectof burlesque (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Apropos to Dryden, he has burlesqued his St. Cecilia, that you will never read it again without laughing.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
This gentleman has burlesqued the following eminent authors, by such a close imitation of their turn of verse, that it has not the appearance of a copy, but an original.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
Shakespeare has burlesqued this idea in his exquisite buffoonery, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. sc.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
