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.
have burlesqued
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present perfectof burlesque.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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"I am innocent of any such intent as you have ascribed to me, and if people say I have burlesqued Rossetti they say what is not true."
From The Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
He might have burlesqued Virgil too, from whom I took the image.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
