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Definition of Extravaganza
1. Noun. Any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment.
Definition of Extravaganza
1. n. A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
Definition of Extravaganza
1. Noun. an event or display (dramatic, musical, etc) of fantastic or chaotic behaviour or conduct. ¹
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Definition of Extravaganza
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravaganza
Literary usage of Extravaganza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(10) ' Blue Beard :' an extravaganza by HB FARNIE, performed over four hundred
and seventy times in America, and first produced in London on September 19, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"[FT] Extravaganza. Any work of art in which ace pted forms are ... A musical
extravaganza must be the work of a musician familiar with the forms he ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"CHAPTER VIII MORE EXTENDED INSTRUMENTAL FORMS
Capriccio—Fantasia—Extravaganza—Potpourri — Scherzo — Rondo—March—Examples. ..."