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Definition of Burlesquing
1. burlesque [v] - See also: burlesque
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlesquing
Literary usage of Burlesquing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"I agree with Mr. Rossetti in thinking that the traces of this process of burlesquing
are not at all obvious. The poems, with one exception, do not strike me ..."
2. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"No Sir, I have too great an honour for Shakspeare to think of burlesquing him ;
and to be sure of not burlesquing him, I will never attempt to alter him, ..."
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