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vaudeville

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaudeville \Vaude"ville\, n. [F., fr. Vau-de-vire, a village in Normandy, where Olivier Basselin, at the end of the 14th century, composed such songs.] [Written also vaudevil .] A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs. ▪ After its closing on Dec. 9, 1906, it soon reopened as the Empire, a vaudeville and ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, "a country song," especially one for the stage, from French vaudeville (16c.), alteration (by influence of ville "town") of Middle French vaudevire , said to be from (chanson du) Vau de Vire "(song of the) valley of Vire," in the Calvados region of ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A vaudeville is a French satirical poem or song born of the 17th and 18th centuries. Its name is lent to the French theatrical entertainment comédie en vaudeville of the 19th and 20th century. From these vaudeville took its name. The earliest vaudeville ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. [syn: music hall ]

Usage examples of vaudeville.

Before long, Materia was playing for local ceilidhs and traveling vaudeville troupes.

Here is pictured a type of Greek work which survives in American vaudeville, where every line may be two-thirds spoken and one-third sung, the entire rendering, musical and elocutionary, depending upon the improvising power and sure instinct of the performer.

Valley Theater, the only stage in the Antelope Valley providing the finest in kinematograph and vaudeville entertainment.

Mario had not so much club feet as more like block feet: not only flat but perfectly square, good for kicking knob-fumbled doors open with but too short to be conventionally employed as feet: together with the lordosis in his lower spine, they force Mario to move in the sort of lurchy half-stumble of a vaudeville inebriate, body tilted way forward as if into a wind, right on the edge of pitching face-first onto the ground, which as a child he did fairly often, whether given a bit of a shove from behind by his older brother Orin or no.

But Materia still had the vaudeville and the picture shows and she was happy as long as she could play.

He remembered rollicking down the hill to Strait Street, well past midnight, singing old vaudeville songs.

Then the mayor introduced the toast of vaudeville, that famous monologuist and comedian, the darling of the Irish, Billy Brady.

Mexico, Brazil, and Poland overdubbed in cheap, sleazy attempts to revive vaudeville, and taped coverage of such stellar live sports events as Demolition Derby, and Bobtail truck races.

Only a remnant is left of the old vaudeville circuits Verey and Lanty knew.

He says Henry by this time is checking out the bill down at his vaudeville house or packing up the film from the movie palace and putting it on the trolley where it will go on the beltline to Buffalo to be replaced by a new film.

In 1919, as their hopes dwindled of making themselves secure for life through Deliverance, and since their Chautauqua tours as well as Hollywood experience had inured them to exhibiting themselves to make a living, far from turning down a vaudeville contract, they sought it.

The Webers doubted that a deaf-blind woman could interest a vaudeville audience, which was rowdier and more intent on entertainment than the education-bent, sober folk who formed the Chautauqua constituency.

The social pressures that attended the vaudeville tour Helen found to be lighter than those of the Chautauqua circuit.

Sabine, assisted by Mariotte and Gasselin, invented various little vaudeville schemes to ascertain the dishes which Madame de Rochefide served to Calyste.

Clem and Jody, two oldtime vaudeville hoofers, cope out as Russian agents whose sole function is to represent the U.