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travestier en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌtrævəˈstiər/

Etymology

From travesty + -er.

Meanings

1. One who makes a travesty of something.
   • It is the majestic simplicity of the great Wordsworth compared with the feeble and starveling attempts of his imitators, the harmless caricatures of his travestiers. 1841, Joseph Bartlett, Music as an Auxiliary to Religion. An Address before the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, April, 1841., Boston, Mass.: […] Crocker and Brewster, […], page 14:
   • The travestier conceives that it is a palpable mistake to suppose Homer wrote his great poems seriously,—he considers that they are “ludicrous,” not “sublime” poems. 1824 November 20, W[illia]m L[isle] Bowles, “Letter XV.”, in A Final Appeal to the Literary Public, Relative to Pope, in Reply to Certain Observations of Mr. Roscoe, in His Edition of That Poet’s Works. […], London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], published 1825, page 140:
   • The strongest evidence for the view of Brighton Rock as play is Greene’s early and only “scholarly” book—on John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, the great Restoration travestier of the court and the royal figure himself; a rake and an atheist who played with blasphemy and may or may not have converted on his deathbed. 2007, Ronald Paulson, “[Demonic and Banal Evil] Pinkie Brown and Ida Arnold: Graham Greene”, in Sin and Evil: Moral Values in Literature, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

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