vaudevillian
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of vaudevillian
First recorded in 1925–30; vaudeville + -ian
Example Sentences
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The book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer and Dean Fuller, which infuses vaudevillian mirth into “The Princess and the Pea,” has been updated by Amy Sherman-Palladino to be more in keeping with contemporary sensitivities.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
He also played a hard-boiled radio station owner in “Memphis” and showed fine vaudevillian chops in “On the Twentieth Century” singing “Five Zeros,” an ode to the joys of money.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
Likewise, she has never experienced the vaudevillian atmosphere of the Last Night, with all its flamboyant costumes and communal singalongs.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023
In Pee-wee, Reubens created a timeless, ageless friend you can't help but love — asexual, bawdy and queer in one package, whose tastes are both cutting edge and retro vaudevillian.
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2023
They were the legs of a once quite widely acknowledged public beauty, a vaudevillian, a dancer, a very light dancer.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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