burlesque: [17] French is the immediate source of English burlesque, but French got it from Italian burlesco, a derivative of burla ‘joke, fun’. This may come from Vulgar Latin *burrula, a derivative of late Latin burra ‘trifle’, perhaps the same word as late Latin burra ‘wool, shaggy cloth’.
burlesque (n.)
1660s, "derisive imitation, grotesque parody," from French burlesque (16c.), from Italian burlesco, from burla "joke, fun, mockery," possibly ultimately from Late Latin burra "trifle, nonsense," literally "flock of wool." Modern sense of "variety show featuring striptease" is American English, 1870. Originally (1857) "the sketches at the end of minstrel shows." As a verb, from 1670s.
例文
1. The book read like a black comic burlesque .
この本は荒唐無稽で滑稽な風刺作品のように読んでいる。
2.a burlesque of literary life
文学生活への戯れ
3.Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.
私たちの喜劇はシェイクスピアの悲劇に対する風刺的な模倣です。
4.He shouldn 't burlesque the elder.
彼はその長者を真似するべきではない。
5.By taking bribes the judge made a burlesque of his high office.