Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlesk
Literary usage of Burlesk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geschichte der grotesken Satire by Heinrich Schneegans (1894)
"Der Ausdruck „burlesk" vom ital. burla (Scherz) ist häufig sowohl in der
italienischen als in der französischen Literaturgeschichte gebraucht worden; ..."
2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"To it they add various miscellaneous new spellings: aker, anser, burlesk, buro,
cam- pain, catar, counterfit, delite, foren, forfit, frend, grotesk, iland, ..."
3. Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"burlesk Verse. At Paris Christ's Passion in burlesk. A Tragedy of Aeschylus.
The defeat of Xerxes. The Subject and Oeconomy. Haw imitated for our English ..."
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