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Travestied
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.
Travesties
Travesty Trav"es*ty, n.; pl. Travesties. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. --De Quincey.
Travesting
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.
Travesty
Travesty Trav"es*ty, a. [F. travesti, p. p. of travestir to disguise, to travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to dress, clothe. See Vest.] Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. [R.]
Travesty
Travesty Trav"es*ty, n.; pl. Travesties. A burlesque translation or imitation of a work. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. --De Quincey.
Travesty
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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- authors, while others have opted for the words travestidad (roughly "travestity"), or transvestividad (roughly "transvestivity"). In the same way, the...
- Antoinette Parr Major General Sir Maurice Harpenden Eugene Powers Lord De Travest John Redmond Manager of the Hotel Vendome Gustave Rolland A Lady Jane Saville...
- 1987); "The Sublet" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]; "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story] Len Kaminski...
- good way, this film helped indirectly to think about homo****uality and travestism in teenagers. Manuela (Lucerito) has a lot of difficulties to get work...
- public-domain character created by Pat Boyette in 1968. He illustrated "Travest: Spirit Talker", a western he and Roger McKenzie co-created for Charlton...
- censura y travestismo cultural.” [Melodrama, Censorship and Cultural Travestism] en Diálogos de la Comunicación no. 65, noviembre 2002. “Los medios norteamericanos...
- Thin Skinned Animal 1978 101 Westlake, Donald Edwin N'exagérons rien ! A Travest 1978 102 Ryck, Francis Prière de se pencher au-dehors 1978 103 Russell...
- parc (oil on canvas), 39 cm x 46 cm, exhibited at the Salon of 1914 1920: Travest (oil on canvas), 92 cm X 60 cm, Musée du Petit-Palais in Paris Portrait...