Burlesques is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BURLESQUES in dictionary:

VERB:
• parody or imitate in an absurd or comically exaggerated way
NOUN:
• BURLESQUE, (French) a ludicrous imitation, also BURLESK, BURLEYCUE
• an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody
• a variety show, typically including striptease
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation

Words related to BURLESQUES

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How to use BURLESQUES in a sentence

• In 1716 Curll threatened to publish the Town Eclogues, burlesques upon Ambrose Philips, written by Lady Mary, with the help of Pope and perhaps Gay.
• Shakspearian burlesques were no novelty to the town.
• STEPHEN LEACOCK has published a fresh series of burlesques will, I do not doubt, add to the Christmas jollity of a vast crowd of laughter-lovers.
• As the reader may remember, this was when the aesthetic craze and the burlesques inseparable from it were at their height.
• These mock-parts which are burlesques on the regular appointments, are also satires on the habits, character, or manners of those to whom they are assigned.
• The writer, whoever he was, did not indulge in flattery, and in particular he attacked our classical burlesques on the ground that they were ugly.

Similar words containing BURLESQUE without suffix s

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