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.
were burlesquing
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past progressiveof burlesque.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough's wedding.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night, long after this, when Richard was a reporter in New York, he and Miss Rehan were burlesquing a scene from a play on which the last curtain had just fallen.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Charles Belmont Davis
Some of our pious authors appear not to have been aware that they were burlesquing religion.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
