Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

HomeB › Burlesque

Burlesque

a low form of the mixture of things high and low. High scribed in a familiar manner, or vice mixture of things high and low. High low expressions, noble subjects deversa. scribed in a familiar manner, or vice structive, if laughable, side of things; The true comic shows us an inthe burlesque iravesties and caricatures them in order to excite laughter or ridicule.

← BurlesonBurlingame (ANSON an American diplomatist) →