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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Travesty  \Trav"es*ty\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Travestied};  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Travesting}.] 
  To  translate,  imitate,  or  represent,  so  as  to  render 
  ridiculous  or  ludicrous. 
 
  I  see  poor  Lucan  travestied,  not  appareled  in  his  Roman 
  toga,  but  under  the  cruel  shears  of  an  English  tailor. 
  --Bentley. 




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