What is "burlesques"

Usage examples of "burlesques".

Instantly they appeared in public in their grotesque burlesques of the official garb of aviators, elevator boys, bus conductors, train guards, and so on, their deplorable deficiency in design was unescapably revealed.

Twain had a fondness for burlesques takeoffs on literary conventions and forms.

What are the targets of his burlesques in Tom Sawyer, and how does he make fun of his targets?

The major targets of Twain's burlesques are juvenile literature which claims that only virtue and industry are rewarded.

He had composed a large amount of music, chiefly sacred, including thirty-nine masses and twelve "Oratorios for Good Friday," besides some grotesque pieces intended as burlesques of the musical life of Vienna.

Banks, and the lighter foppishness of Winslow and Crosby, not to mention Senor Perkins' more pronounced unconventionality, appeared as burlesques of their own characters in a play.

The fickleness of men in costume in a manner burlesques their shifty and uncertain taste in literature.

It must be observed that one of Sam's especial delights had been to ride in attendance on his master to all kinds of political gatherings, where, roosted on some rail fence, or perched aloft in some tree, he would sit watching the orators, with the greatest apparent gusto, and then, descending among the various brethren of his own color, assembled on the same errand, he would edify and delight them with the most ludicrous burlesques and imitations, all delivered with the most imperturbable earnestness and solemnity.