vaudevillian
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of vaudevillian
First recorded in 1925–30; vaudeville + -ian
Example Sentences
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Sabrina Carpenter was the night's biggest star - opening the show with a cheeky wink, a phalanx of Beefeaters and a vaudevillian mash-up of Espresso, Bed Chem and... er, Rule, Britannia.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025
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
That is a vaudevillian death sentence: as a rule, one never follows animal acts or children or child-like Muppets.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
Kotula emerges onstage, vaudevillian charm doing numbers on the Richter scale as she introduces us to her Dolly, a brassy, sassy woman-about-town whose work as a matchmaker sits atop a pile of side hustles.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 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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