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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Burlesque \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.
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