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Definition of Burlesquers
1. burlesquer [n] - See also: burlesquer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlesquers
Literary usage of Burlesquers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The Blonde burlesquers, How they Grew.—History of the Nude Woman Question in
America.—The Black Crook.—The White Fawn. —Ixion. — The Deluge. ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
"THE LAST OF THE burlesquers The subject of this sketch, Eaton Stan- nard Barrett,
belongs to those satirical romancers who may be roughly classed as ..."
3. Theatrical and Circus Life: Or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust by John Joseph Jennings (1882)
"The blonde beauties of the leg drama, or the fair burlesquers, as some people
... Indeed it is often a case of diamond cut diamond, for the burlesquers are ..."
4. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"This pronounced success led toa place in that post-graduate school of burlesquers,
the Weber & Fields company, where his clever acting won the warm praise ..."
5. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas (1891)
"The fin t/e siècle world divides itself into burlesquers and those who are
burlesqued, and Sullivan has chosen to double the part. ..."
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