travestie

Courtney Love noemt de beeltenis van Cobain in het muziekspel Guitar Hero een 'travestie'.

Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

But, of course, the word “travestie” actually does mean both.

A Bit More on The Second Sex 2005

The OLYMPIC has been crowded nightly by the mingled attractions of opera and travestie; while the BOWERY AMPHITHEATRE and ROCKWELL'S Circus at NIBLO'S, have shared abundantly in the favor bestowed now-a-days upon popular entertainments.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

When Wright is not compelled to make a buffoon of himself in some stupid travestie, but is allowed fair scope for the display of his comic talents, which are really considerable, we prefer him to Ravel.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

"Lilian" is a burlesque on disappointed love, and a travestie of the passions which such a disappointment entails.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

He had some letters, and was ingenious, but much of an unbeliever, and wickedly undertook, some years after, to travestie the Bible in doggrel verse, as Cotton had done Virgil.

Paras. 1-50 1909

He had some letters, and was ingenious, but much of an unbeliever, and wickedly undertook, some years after, to travestie the Bible in doggrel verse, as Cotton had done Virgil.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1994 Edition) 1909

On seeing the travestie of ancient academies and groves where the schools used to congregate, the dialogues consisting of bald atheism under sheep's clothing to trap the unwary, and termed "The _Religion_ of Humanity," of abuse and personality in lieu of argument, of buffoonery called wit, of airing pet hobbies alien to the subject instead of disputating, of shouting vulgar claptrap instead of rhetoric, etc.

Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Charles Sotheran 1874

The old woman's shuffling steps retreated again and the girl snatched up the golden jar, opened the door a little way to let in the daylight and looked at herself in the bright surface; but the curve of the costly vase showed her features all distorted, and she gaily breathed on the hideous travestie that met her eyes, so that it was all blurred out by the moisture.

The Sisters — Volume 1 Georg Ebers 1867

The old woman's shuffling steps retreated again and the girl snatched up the golden jar, opened the door a little way to let in the daylight and looked at herself in the bright surface; but the curve of the costly vase showed her features all distorted, and she gaily breathed on the hideous travestie that met her eyes, so that it was all blurred out by the moisture.

The Sisters — Volume 1 Georg Ebers 1867