Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One, especially a performer, who works in vaudeville.
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- noun US a person who performs in
vaudeville
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- noun a performer who works in vaudeville
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Examples
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If I use the phrase vaudevillian for Bill Clinton, by contrast you think that President Bush has a front row seat to watch rather than to perform.
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In his more relaxed moments, Bernard's speech fell into a kind of vaudevillian patois.
'The Great Oom' 2010
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Rebecca Mead, writing in the New Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction."
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And Jody Rosen argues that Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.
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With this "vaudevillian" song the band wanted to assert that "this wouldn't be a paint-by-numbers Hold Steady record," says Mr. Kubler.
Holding On 2008
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Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction."
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Jody Rosen argues that "Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Theatre Alley, tucked inside the Financial District, still bears a vaudevillian wall painting from "Billy Bathgate," which filmed there in 1991.
Our Typecast Metropolis Nick Carr 2011
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Miss Hope Springs, a 6ft 2in "ex-Las Vegas showgirl", is the retro-glam, vaudevillian alter ego created by the pianist Ty Jeffries in order to sing his own compositions in theatres and clubs around the country.
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Interview magazine says “these vaudevillian vamps are putting the show back in showmanship.”
THE DITTY BOPS « in other words [a portland feminist and queer bookstore and blog] 2009
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