Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Burke.
Syn. -- Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.
Bur*lesque" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burlesqued (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Burlesquing (&?;).] To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Stillingfleet.
Bur*lesque", v. i. To employ burlesque.
Bur*les"quer (&?;), n. One who burlesques.
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||Bur*let"ta (bûr*lt"t), n. [It., dim. of burla mockery. See Burlesque, a.] (Mus.) A comic operetta; a music farce. Byron.
Bur"li*ness (bûr"l*ns), n. Quality of being burly.
Bur"ly (bûr"l), a. [OE. burlich strong, excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence handsome, manly, stout. Cf. Bower.] 1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton.
In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was] somewhat corpulent and burly.
Sir T. More.
Burly and big, and studious of his ease.
Cowper.