Noun:

தான் எடுத்துக் கொண்ட பொருளை எள்ளி நகையாடும் வகையில் எழுதப்பட்ட இலக்கிய (அ) நாடகப் படைப்பு,

burlesque's Usage Examples:

This dueling duet, performed with the soft-shoe style of Irish stepdance with some burlesque moves thrown in, represented the struggle between love and lust.

fete des fous), the name for certain burlesque quasi-religious festivals which, during the middle ages, were the ecclesiastical counterpart of the secular revelries of the Lord of Misrule.

The day had arrived with more bumps and grinds than a burlesque matron.

Welcome to the magical world of Miss Keda Breeze where circus showgirl meets the glamorous decadence of burlesque striptease.

In the latter case he is perhaps unconsciously moved to put burlesque versions of Biblical stories into the mouths of his native informants, or to represent the savages as ridiculing the Scriptural traditions which he communicates to them.

In 1673 a decree of the parlement against Cartesian and other unlicensed theories was on the point of being issued, and was only checked in[time by the appearance of a burlesque mandamus against the intruder Reason, composed by Boileau and some of his brother-poets.

burlesque theaters of Chicago.

Its affectations were burlesqued in Gilbert and Sullivan's travesty Patience (1881), which practically killed by ridicule the absurdities to which it had grown.

There's a fantastic resurgence of burlesque coming back, thanks in part to Dita von Tesse and partially to the recent outerwear trend for 40's and 50's styles.

Jazz parodies - and their closely related cousin, travesties, or burlesque - borrowed themes and some melody from generally tamer music and rewrote the song with a jazz bent musically.

This singular romance is diversified by, or, to speak more properly, it is the vehicle of the most bewildering abundance of digression, burlesque amplification, covert satire on things political, social and religious, miscellaneous erudition of the literary and scientific kind.

Synonyms:

show,

Antonyms:

genuine, natural, formalism, tragedy, fall,